Why The 2030s Will Be The New Renaissance

Is the "Digital Middle Ages" finally ending? In my last video, we explored how the 2020s mirror the contraction and chaos of the medieval era. But history doesn't stop at the Dark Ages. Today, we’re looking ahead to the 2030s, a decade with the potential for a true Second Renaissance. What if bad thing not forever and good thing actually happen???

From the "re-spatialization" of the internet to the "Post-Cringe" era of new sincerity, we are seeing the exact same cultural catalysts that sparked 15th-century Florence. We discuss why AI is our modern "Printing Press," how "Corporate Latin" is being replaced by authentic vernaculars, and why the "Enshittification" of the economy might actually lead to a return of quality, ownership, and Civic Humanism.

The Siege of Constantinople is happening in real-time to our legacy institutions. Maybe it's time to build something new, of course starting with this YouTube channel. Also, subscribe to my Patreon.

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NYT ARTICLE: https://archive.is/7WVL8

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - The End of the Digital Middle Ages
0:21 - The Studiolo: Fixing Our Attention Spans
2:44 - Ad Fontes: Rejecting AI Slop & Reaction Content
3:48 - Scholasticism 2.0: Why AI is an Intellectual Closed Loop
4:46 - The New Black Death: How AI Makes Humanity a Luxury Good
6:57 - The Printing Press & The Stabilization of Truth
9:02 - The Vernacular vs. Corporate Latin (ChatGPT Speak)
13:25 - Beyond Cringe: The Return of Sincerity and Virtù
15:34 - Ending Enshittification: Ownership & Civic Humanism
18:22 - The Siege of Constantinople: The Fall of Legacy Institutions
20:18 - Conclusion: How to Build the Future

WORKS CITED
Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man
Dante Alighieri, De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular)
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Isabel Cristo, "Buy Better, Buy Less, Feel Smug About It" (The New York Times)
Petrarch, Letters on Familiar Matters (Rerum familiarum libri)
The endless hours I've spent scrolling TikTok and observing the modern human condition

MUSIC FROM THE VIDEO, SHOUTOUT TO QUEST MASTER: https://questmaster.bandcamp.com/albu...