It will play out across multiple domains, too--economic, cultural, political. Combine this with what our corporate masters are gearing up to do to us with AI, and what you have is a recipe for people to suddenly realize how much they've internalized a concept of US manifest destiny.
This is a rupture, there will be a before and an after. There is no reason to believe the after will resemble the before, at all. This is a demarcation in the lives of thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of educators.

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