I'm convinced that what is happening is that on a societal scale we are all just seeing the totality of human existence flash before our eyes before we go extinct. We can't seem to leave 2020, we can't seem to leave 2016. We're cycling through all the horrible pop culture from the 2000s and the 90s and the 80s. We can only make shitty remakes of movies made just 7 years ago anymore. On top of this we're rehashing pro-slavery arguments from the 1860s, we have unironic monarchists living among us, we're arguing about germ theory and fighting battles that should've been decided centuries ago. People want to return to the viking age, paganism, the Roman Empire, the crusader era, all the way to monke. We're talking about ancestral diets, primitive living, "paleo" diets. Human civilization is in its death throes and as we lie here taking our last gasps we are just flipping through every human memory we have encoded in our genetic code from prehistory all the way up to 2020, experiencing it all at once.