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The 2020s: A Decade of Cognitive Dissonance — Why Everything Feels Like It's Changing at Once

Why do so many of today's crises feel disconnected—and yet seem to point in the same direction?

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

In The 2020s: A Decade of Cognitive Dissonance, David Houle argues that the defining challenge of this decade is not any single event, but the accelerating pace of structural change itself. This episode examines how technological innovation, institutional inertia, and legacy thinking interact to produce the cognitive dissonance many people experience as familiar systems struggle to adapt.

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