Personally, I doubt we've reached peak disorder.

yeah, but that's your emotions not your logic. Take a look at this list. Note that the Japanese attacked the United States because Japan under Tojo believed that if Japan did not defeat the United States in the pacific, Japan would be extinct. Not defeated, not diminished, eliminated from the surface of the earth. Nonetheless, their only major victories were (1) Pearl Harbor (2) Wake Island. It was all downhill after Midway. Once America knew the Japanese were fighting a war, they were never that effective ever again.

Everybody pooh-poohed the Proud Boys until they took a shit on the capitol steps. At that point, the Crazy Right found their movements constrained.

Trust in our electoral system is actively being undermined by the GOP, who are free to lie with impunity about non-existent voter fraud while they simultaneously devise technically legal ways to guarantee themselves a much higher likelihood of "winning" the next presidential election, should they be unable to clinch the electoral college votes.

This has been true since the Constitution, it's just that since Texas controls the textbooks you read in school they've been able to convince you no one had any worries the minute MLK said "I have a dream."

Fundamentally, though, just about the entire world is reconsidering the relationship between society and government.

Fundamentally, though, the entire world is dealing with economic scarcity at the end of the Long Boom.

I think the rate of technological advance has outpaced our ability to effectively address the complexities of modern life through policy.

WHY tho. Outside the typical "I don't understand it therefore it's bad" platitudes everyone always throws up whenever they're surprised by something, what is your actual argument for this.

Tech-based disruption has been used by the wealthy and autocratic to further increase the wealth gap and undermine the entire concept of what a government should be and do.

"Tech-based disruption" has been doing that since the invention of agriculture tho so why is this time different exactly.

Unfettered greed knows no bounds.

BUT IT NEVER HAS.

As a student of history? I can boil down everyone's disquiet to a fundamental "whoa we're living through history." But, since nobody here lived through the Reconstruction, or the '60s, or the Depression, or whatever, we're 100% certain that our bullshit is fresh.

It ain't.