Proliferation
To REALLY understand what's going on right now, you'd have to look at it from a distance, but the entire planet is in on this one, so there's no "distance". The only other way to look at it objectively is from the perspective of history, but we haven't lived through it yet. Of course after we have lived through it, this period in human history will be easily explained, and it will have a name. If I had the time, I'd run a contest to guess what that name would be. If I DID run such a What-name-will-future-historians-give-to-this period?" contest, (which I'm not) what would your entry/suggestion be?Hmmm?
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Amnesia period?
The Second Middle Age - but which religon will be the faith faith and more faith preachers?
The land formerly known as Iran period? - now a nuclear wasteland because they would not listen to the world which was forced to exercise pre-emptive nuclear war on the country and people killing everyone and everything in it.
When religion overshadowed logic!
Obstinate Ayatollahs Period!
Superstition Obfuscated Minds!
Not A Sane One In The House!
Probably won't be much looking back at the end. Do Gog and Magog ring a bell?
The Ostrich period (not to be confused with Ostriech) - the period when people buried their heads in the sand to avoid confronting reality that was punching them continuously in the nose.
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz.
Robbie Dolev's suggestion is pretty good.
I'd go with "Psychotic". Completely disconnected from reality.
Age of the Falafel Republic.
How many times around Mount Sinai must we all go?
The Year of the coming of Messiah!
Bombs ahoy!
I have to go with the Singularity. (If you are not familiar with the concept try Ray Kurzweil's book: http://www.singularity.com/) To try to sum it up in a few words, the Singularity is a point in history where (technological, mental, and other) change is so rapid that you can't predict the future beyond it.
The problem with recognizing that we are in the Singularity is that it requires a certain sort of mental judo. Or just keeping accurate records. How far ahead could you predict with any accuracy two, five, ten, or twenty years ago? Twenty years ago, you might make it to Sept. 10, 2001. Today I'm under a year, and six months is getting iffy.
Turn around, and there is a similar, but different problem. Try to explain to a child today what it was like to live in say, 1952, and you start out by explaining--if you have the time--everything in their current world did not exist. (Except for the anachronism of public elementary schools, which are almost fifty years behind the times.)
My urine tells me there's gonna be either THIS or THAT, whatever will happen: in twenty years the situation will have changed dramatically. As I pointed out, my urine tells me this; I'm not a political analyst.
Anyways, future historians will either call it "Endarkening" or "The time when we almost fucked up everything [but acted early enough]"
The age of "Illegitimi Non Carborundum. Don't let the you-know-whats grind you down!
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