What Is To Be Done ?

The future is chaotic, complex, and challenging.

Jul 21, 2024

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Endless money printing.

Pointless wars.

Collapsing birthrates.

Social atomization.

Delusional worship of the self.

Withdrawal.

The desire for annihilation.

When I look around the world today, these are the trends I see.

I am 35. It was not like this when I was 20.

But the seeds were there, and now they have flowered.

In most of history, when the larger society stopped functioning, you could fall back on your local institutions, the baseline bedrock of your culture.

The church and the priest, the pub and the publican, the farm and the farmer, the manor and the lord.

But today: These social institutions have been obliterated.

There is very little to fall back on.

Here is my best model for what has happened to us: We originally built computers to perform calculations (hence the name). Later, we connected them all together and put them in everyone’s pockets. This changed our social environment into something driven by the internal dynamics of computer networks. We now live in the Network Era. These networks were stronger than most of our pre-Internet institutions, and destroyed them, purely by existing and attracting people into them.

Our previous institutions encountered something that they couldn’t handle, and died.

Currently, we are running on fumes. The people who run things at the moment grew up prior to the Internet, and still know (somewhat) how to organize together and get (some) things done.

But they will die soon, and the middle ranks of our society are already populated by people who appear to never have become adults.

I have met 50yo+ men who behave like small children, in any situation outside of their narrow technical competence. It is an ugly sight.

So, what is to be done ? (apud Lenin)

My thesis:

Networks are the new foundational unit of our society. We must adapt to the new social environment and make it work.

If you're not in a network, you should start or join one.

Consider joining mine. It's called Tela Network.

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I'm quite happy to make my Tela contact link public, to the whole world.

I would never do this with an email address. I don't have infinite time. I can't allow the world to send me infinite messages.

But I can make myself available to the world for some messages, if each message pays a fee.

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