i have a conspiracy theory that part of the current linguistic trappings of modern english one can not help but set ourselves up for more of these deep state affairs.
because we spend a lot of attention fighting over what had happened to focus it on what is happening right now whenever moment u are reading this and wherever you are.
obsessing over the past will only recreate it because the future is made by those who know that the past is a ghost story and the future will be stolen by those who never consider the now.
so i don't know.