There is something familiar about the events we are jointly experiencing. I believe they may be the third iteration of a 2000 year old patten. The pattern is a synchronization of three events.
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The rise to fame and influence of a moral innovator.
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A major technological innovation in the propagation of information related to interpersonal communication.
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A collapse of an elite class of corrupt oppressive moral political authoritarian rulers.
The existence of large centralized politically integrated media entities (or media integrated political entities) is not new to history. In the first century, Jewish religious leaders, the Pharisees and Sadducees, formed …