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In the Wake of the Eighties

The world is living the consequences of the choices it made in the eighties

Venkatesh Rao
Dec 12, 2020
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The Eighties. How did they start? How are they going? Questions about the world that rhyme with standing questions I have about my own life.

How does one grow up? How does a world grow up?

As a product of the Eighties myself, the two questions are as one in my head, and I cannot properly separate them. Nor do I particularly want to.

At a personal level, …

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