Overturn

From Gothpoodle

By the early 2070s, the social upheavals of the Transhuman Awakening were over. Most of the radical youth movements of the early Awakening had collapsed, although both Transhumanist and Preservationist ideals were continuing to take root in different sectors of society. In most parts of the developed world, a conservative reaction had gained control of political and social institutions. The new young generation was cynical rather than idealistic, interested in surviving rather than rebuilding a hostile world.

The era from about 2070 to 2084 was often called “The Overturn.” It was a time of economic prosperity worldwide, but in most places it was also a time of social drift, during which rival ideologies fought bitter but increasingly ineffective struggles. The global political order which had existed since the fall of Soviet Communism in 1992 was finally beginning to unravel. Established powers such as the United States and the European Union were suddenly finding themselves eclipsed by nations new to the center of the world stage.