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Managing The Situation

Podcast · ~17 min · Listen · (gathered 2026-09-10)

  • Ed Zitron argues that society consistently manages crises rather than genuinely dealing with them, a pattern that leads to the emergence of new problems.
  • The current AI bubble is presented as a prime example of this societal failure, stemming from an inability to grapple with the inherent complexity of the real world.
  • The piece implicitly warns that this approach, reminiscent of “Hypernormalization,” perpetuates a cycle where underlying issues are never resolved, only temporarily contained.