Guillaume le Rouge on Nostr: Personally, I felt a huge surge of hope between 2009 and maybe 2014. And then, even ...

Personally, I felt a huge surge of hope between 2009 and maybe 2014. And then, even against a slight boost of anti-system activism, the reaction fell down hard. The Arab spring either led to new authoritarianism, or entrenched civil war and the populist politics of Occupy either faded away or fed into Trumpist "economic anxiety" and scapegoating.