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Some fuse has been lit. Nobody knows what's coming. Nobody knows what's happened. There's a feeling that something has turned.
As somebody who has studied history, you're right; something has been lit. Nobody knows what it's attached to yet.
Nobody knows where this is going to go, but something has been lit

For a "Ph.D. student of American History maintaining a 4.0," that's pitifully repetitive, not to mention vacuous. "Nobody knows" times 4?

Wretches confined in Plato's cave see better.

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled "The ground has shifted. It doesn't exist anymore." [TRANSCRIPT of historian's 4 min video analysis of public reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination], Buttons12 wrote:
Some fuse has been lit. Nobody knows what's coming. Nobody knows what's happened. There's a feeling that something has turned.
As somebody who has studied history, you're right; something has been lit. Nobody knows what it's attached to yet.
Nobody knows where this is going to go, but something has been lit
For a "Ph.D. student of American History maintaining a 4.0," that's pitifully repetitive, not to mention vacuous. "Nobody knows" times 4?
Wretches confined in Plato's cave see better.
I disagree. I've spent a lot of time transcribing spoken interviews and have found that people speak in ways which violate rules for composition and grammar (e.g., sentence fragments, repetition etc.) The spoken word is given additional meaning via facial expression, volume and intonation etc. When reading video transcripts later, without those visual means to emphasize what might be overlooked, the text version seem monotonous and unthinking. I found her video presentation clear, insightful and compelling.