How Liberalism Learned to Sound Like Zero Hedge

It’s not your imagination–everything has become a crisis. In 2026 alone, math education, ‘AI memorization‘ and even condominiums are now a crisis. The word crisis used to be reserved for major events such as the September 11 attacks or the 2008 Great Recession, but has now been expanded to include pretty much everything. Around 2020, the media began to realize that the fastest way to get people’s attention was to frame every issue as a crisis. Suddenly everything became an existential threat or a breaking emergency. There was even a meme about it–the so-called “current thing” for the issue that demanded the immediate and collective attention of the public. The media, being that it’s composed of humans, are not immune to incentives. They saw that framing everything in alarmist language or absolutes drove up clicks and engagement. It’s a weird–or at least unexpected–development in the sense that before the 2010s, “alternative media” was clearly distinct from “mainstream media.” The…