In two months

Reality shatters as institutions hollow while maintaining facades. Democracy continues as theater while governance privatizes through back-door contracts. Words vanish from official use through "refinements." Territories become candidates for unilateral annexation.

Media fragments into competing realities—each sealed ecosystem reinforcing its own truth while demonizing others. Information becomes weaponized, with algorithmic amplification creating storms of disinformation that overwhelm critical thinking. Social feeds customize rage while corporate platforms determine acceptable speech. Synthetic media makes seeing no longer believing.

Transnational oligarchs consolidate power across borders while stoking nationalist sentiments that distract from their ascendance. Fear replaces law—threats to families silence opposition where career threats couldn't. Archives vanish through "optimization," history through deletion protocols.

Climate accelerates its verdict on human systems as fires arrive in wrong seasons and infrastructure falters.

Through these fractures, human connection remains the essential counterforce—direct relationships that algorithms can't mediate, knowledge shared through conversation rather than screens, communities formed through mutual aid rather than platform affiliations. What survives is what can't be digitized: trust built through shared hardship, wisdom passed in person, solidarity forged in collective action.