Quote Originally Posted by thebigspendur View Post
Looks to me like a world wide phenomena going on with the world becoming more and more chaotic and way more dangerous.
The phenomenon has two aspects: Anti-intellectualism, and people's willingness to believe lies. Climate change denial and this utterly unbelievable amount of outright lies (which are not even questioned by the media) are good examples: http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/.

The world is simply becoming more complex, but instead of dealing with this complexity with an open mind, a growing number of people shut down their brains, close their eyes, and vote for seemingly simple solutions. And simple solutions to complex problems are always wrong.

Think 1920/30s Germany. World War 1 lost? Jewish backstabbers! The economy going down the drain? Jews did it. Society becoming more open and inclusive? Jewish attempts at destroying the Aryan race. And so on and so forth. And we all know just how well that ended (eg with 94% of Solingen's industrial district being turned into ashes).

And now I see other badly coiffed, monumental liars. And they are indeed dangerous. A majority of people in the UK have succumbed to the lies told by a bunch of toffs, and Oswald Mosley's revenant. I wonder if the US will stop short of making the same mistake. Otherwise, yes, end of times might be an interesting thought experiment.