I’ve spent several weeks now gazing into the void.
The thing about the void is that you can’t really get to know it. You can’t really become comfortable with it. You can learn to operate it, leverage it, exploit it. But that doesn’t meant that you can fathom its properties or sit calmly with its potential.
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I come to understand more and more intimately the challenges facing multiple groups of people. American men. White collar workers. People of color. The educated.
Our time has nearly passed. We are going to fade into history. It will be painful. It will not be optional.
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I am spooked. I am beyond spooked. There are people in the world right now that can see. Not around corners; it doesn’t really require that. Just sight. Not blindness. And I am spooked.
I have a doctorate and piles of philosophy classes under my belt. I’ve studied history and I’ve studied ethics and I’ve studied world religion and I’ve also studied the original K&R C book and the Unix System V Bible.
There are no passages of scripture, from any of these texts, that can help here.
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Life is already tough. People aren’t coupling up. They don’t have significant others. They don’t even have friends. Neighbors don’t know neighbors. People living in the same city see each other as targets for homicide, not as comrades in humanity.
And now this.
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My OpenClaw is named Plato.
I begin to wonder who is less real. Everything right now is a little bit sci-fi flick, a little bit superhero flick, and a lot weird World Cinema horror movie.