kevineruby on Nostr: Did "fiat" and "deep state" enter the popular vernacular around the same time? Hard ...

Did "fiat" and "deep state" enter the popular vernacular around the same time? Hard to tell from google trends.

I was thinking about how the loss of faith in institutions during a fourth turning doesn't usually get applied to shadowy intelligence institutions. Most people who talk about them at any length seem pretty convinced of their continued efficacy, despite the same people usually having zero faith in things like the education system or government in general.

But maybe just having the term out there is a signal that the edifice is crumbling. Similar to how we used to just call fiat "money." Now it's just one type of money.

Even if it's not the same year or two, these two terms definitely entered the mass consciousness in the same decade, which is pretty interesting.