I hate it when people make references to Weimar Germany or repeat cringe shit from the early to mid 2010s like, “Weimar conditions, Weimar solutions.” These people think they’re being clever.
Brother, you don’t live in Weimar Germany.
There’s no great industrial economy. You’re not some war forged Freikorps veteran returning from the front with nothing to do. Labour unions don’t have the power or social position to organize against a liberal state the way they once did. The country isn’t ethnically, culturally, or racially homogenous, and it’s certainly not particularly pious or churchgoing.
Most people are irreligious cultural Christians, atheists, or, in much smaller numbers, neopagans. A huge share of the population grew up with divorced parents or outside traditional households. You were born into the Information Age, shaped by mass global communication, cultural homogenization, instant access to information, and a world that became psychologically much smaller.
That age itself is now ending. We’re moving into the Age of Agency and the Age of AI. Some would argue those are really the same transformation viewed from different angles. AI is becoming a force multiplier for people who are agentic, creative, technically capable, and willing to adapt, while becoming an increasing drag on people who aren’t.
Mass replacement migration on the scale we’re seeing is also historically extraordinary. Population change of this magnitude has usually accompanied war, conquest, colonization, or enormous political upheaval. We’re now watching comparable demographic transformation occur through administrative policy, labour markets, global mobility, and mass migration.
Your circumstances are so historically specific that there isn’t some neat twentieth century allegory waiting to explain them for you.
You’re in uncharted territory.
This is your century. Your generational struggle. Your technological revolution. Your demographic reality. Your political environment. Your responsibility is to understand the world you actually live in instead of cosplaying somebody else’s historical crisis.