The Upheaval - by N.S. Lyons - The Upheaval

Introducing the revolutions upending our world

"The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum," John Martin, 1822. We are living through an era of epochal change. At few times in history have so many currents of civilizational transformation coalesced and crashed into us at once, and at such speed. To say that we are being unmoored by massive technological, economic, environmental, geopolitical, and socio-cultural shifts would be to insufficiently limit our description of what is occurring. Vast new ideational, epistemological, and arguably even theological frameworks for how to understand and interact with reality have emerged and are now…

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