It’s not about waiting for the storm to pass—it’s about refusing to accept the storm as the only possible sky. 🤍 Holding onto hope amidst the ruins—our journey is shared on my pinned post if you feel like reading.

"Prophecy" is overselling it. I'm just observing some very obvious negative trends and extrapolating. The optimistic part is also an extrapolation based on things that we are helping to build, like Bitcoin, Nostr and others, that I hope will make for a much better future in the long term. However I don't see them being adopted fast enough to prevent the looming crisis. Is it doomerism? Perhaps. But I would argue that periodic crises are common. Localised crises are always happening. Ask the lebanese, iranians or ukranians in 2026 if it's "doomerism" or just realism to react. As for the implication that we should do nothing... nothing could be further from my thoughts. In any case, thank you very much for reading!

I tend to follow the framing of things getting worse before they better as well - however I also view it as more of an individualized perception. If indeed we are all “pattern recognition specialists” than there is an implied requirement that we must recognize the pattern of things getting worse before we can make a change to improve things. I sense this is very much aligned with the natural world around us. I also agree that on a macro scale - no one among us is able to yet recognize the patterns that the world is going through in order to prevent or keep things positive….yet…. Perhaps this is where Jason Lowery’s concept of Bitcoin as a world computer/network comes into play eventually???

Things can get much more worst

Tribalistic doomerism is quite a trend these days. Idealistic black and white views of reality also. Self-reliance is beautiful for the human spirit but has its clear real life non black-and-white limits on context.

It's getting better and better for us. When we start building and working together. To show people what real looks like.

Can't defeat the Zeitgeist, though

These disaster "all is getting worse, let's prepare" writeups remind me of this one all the time. (No hate, it's just an observation. Maybe even not a fit for this one.)