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It seems that prophecy did not disappear from Israel suddenly; just like it was an almost-once in a century phenomenon during the times of the Judges (before Samuel), in Second-Temple times the rarity of prophets did not seem to upset the Jewish religious order, and they expected prophets to arise in their own days (see the relevant passages in Ezra-Nehemia and Maccabees). The sages of the Mishna and the Talmud also figured that there were qualified individuals among them, except that apparently God did not see fit to send one of them to rebuke the people. And to be honest, the Jewish people have not really needed any prophets since at least Second-Temple times. A prophet is not supposed to create new halachot or commandments. The prophet is not necessary for deciding the halacha that binds K’lal Yisrael. The prophet’s job is to reprove the people and to remind them of their divine role in the unfolding of history. We already have enough books from the earlier prophets, so what else do we need? Moses himself took a break from being a prophet for 38 years.
(Why would God not send us a prophet for so long? Because when He used to do so, we stopped listening to them. So what would be the point of sending them again? If we need to know how to behave, we have the entire corpus of the earlier books and the recorded Oral Traditions, and the sifrei musar. They are more than sufficient.)
A while back both Biden’s butlers and the CDC announced Corona is one of the top killers of children, or that for children Corona is significantly worse than the flu…
Tom Woods has an episode on this (unchecked).
Some counters, courtesy of Overcoming Bias:
The US had large and successful efforts, kept hidden for many decades, to move the fashion in art and writing away from Soviet styles, toward “modern” US styles.
… the US kept secret for 41 years that it faked its excuse for the Vietnam war, and for 46 years that it spied on citizen phone calls via Project Minaret. KFC has kept its recipe secret for 70 years, and Coca-Cola has kept its secret for 130 years. Venice kept its glass-blowing methods secret for many centuries, and China kept secret its methods of making both silk and porcelain for over a thousand years.