The human species is new.

It’s pretty wild that the American/western experiment in Liberty, defence of property rights and rule of law has entirely run its course in such a short time.

And yet…. At the end of its own “time” 👁️🪬🧬🦋

This reminds me of Terence McKenna’s last video interview that I watched for the first time in entirety last night. His “novelty theory” basically says that things will become exponentially more complex until the rate of change is so high that we’ll have to talk about how weird it is. It does feel like we are reaching the pinnacle of things somehow.

There were families who had a father fight in the civil war and a son fight in the Korean War. A century is a snap of the fingers.

And yet, we spread so fast and broadcast it all - already, nothing is new or fascinating any more.

That's around the time we were able to get the message, any message, around the globe. Things happened before, but they sounded like a tree falling in the forest

First deep ocean dive to Mariana Trench in 1960, Apollo 11 was in 1969 … and yet, if there were not massive decentralized systems (Internet, Bitcoin, Nostr…) it would feel our generation really lost all energy to push forward the physical limits, isn’t it?

People still believe the human walked in the moon? And that Nixon talked to them on a wired phone? This is ridiculous HAHAHAHAHAH View quoted note →

The moon landing was fake Lyn… came on! You are a smart woman!

When we finally get to the moon, it will be “new” as well

We didn’t go to the moon…

strap in. approaching singularity.

The extremely rapid pace of technological development since the late ‘40’s has been notable. Especially in certain forks of those achievements that were attacked or inexplicably “abandoned”. Like early fervor in steam engineering gave way to hydrocarbons…early advances in photovoltaics went underground for decades, a fervor in anti-gravity experiments literally went silent overnight, hydro-carbon extension experiments (col-fusion) became anathema the moment they went public, many verified individuals designing engines that run on water were openly attacked/killed. Scientific achievement in just our lifetimes is a dark-darpa whole of “what can be opted vs what can be co-opted”.

Can’t wait for your sci fi book Lyn. I have one more “Old Man’s War” book from scalzi before I’ll need something new. Hope it’s coming out next year!

Our gods are destroyed

The older I get the closer history feels.

Tell them Larry was here.

The world is fresh and ancient. Above the noise, it feels like the quiet before a storm.

real progress should also involve not harming the environment… the latest of which is AI data centers causing unhealthy and deadly pollution. also real progress should involve people working less at a job. and the possibility of earlier retirement. much earlier.