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The Singularity is Here. Yet also, Nothing Ever Happens. Somehow these two beliefs coincide at the same time, in the same social groups, on the same platform, and even within the same person. My view is that technological change is disrupting the political system, but that the system was doing its best to hang on regardless, and has lasted longer than anyone might have expected, yet is indeed fated to experience a singular happening (and indeed already has). The singularity is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. That is: the singularity is usually modeled in time, but we can model it in space. Conceptually, the change starts at one point on the surface of earth, and then propagates out. Imperceptibly and then suddenly. Therefore: nothing ever happens, right before it’s happening.