 What would that new reality be exactly? We don't know. Is it a civil war, all out chaos, burning cities and the complete destruction of our political system? Something not as bad, something even worse? I have no idea, nobody does. But it's very clear now that we are nowhere near as far removed from anarchy as we previously thought we were. As 21st century Americans, we tend to feel insulated from the kind of carnage and brutality that has shaped the world, the end of history, it's been called. But history has not ended.