So this is happening. We're on this ride for better or worse. And "better" isn't in the cards. But the worst part is this: we're staring into the mirror of truth, and we're not recognizing our own face.
A Couple Of Points In Favor Of Sanity
One is that there are nowhere near as many Steven Miller types out there loading up their assault weapons as we're led to believe. They are a lunatic fringe and will disappear like roaches, if the lights come on.
Two: the level of face-to-face connection going on now, among ordinary people, regardless of what they're trying to do, is incredible, astronomical: evolutionary. It is changing us. It's us, changing. We are in a massive cultural evolution. That's evolution every bit as much as natural selection. Of course we can't see it happening, any more than a fish that crawls up the beach can see it's not being a fish anymore. But think about it like a fish can't.
This is breaking the market segmentation that had us down to demographics of one, each with its own worldview. Like those battery-people in The Matrix, you know? Except that can't work when we're staring into each other's faces.
Isolation is what brought us this chaos, and isolation is dissolving now like sand under your feet as the tide goes out. People connect more in this rich audiovisual connection than any AI-driven marketing-bot or herding algorithm can ever keep up with. An AI would have to go through about as many millions of years as we did, to get to where we are. See, some calculations are so complicated you can't use math as fast as the unfolding process, you just have to wait and see what happens. That's us.
Three: there are still natural limits to collective insanity. Hitler failed when enough people could see the deck tilting and started swimming for it. It might seem as if the betrayal is easier to conceal this time around, among the millions of lies swirling around us, but here's the thing, Mr. President: size doesn't matter when it comes to betrayal. At any scale, it's the percentages that count. And the larger the scale, the harder it is to predict those percentages, much less play them.
We're probably in for something like what happened to the Soviet Union. Maybe worse, maybe not quite as awful. The best I can say is that there are more cool heads out there than fanatic death-cultists.
But it's going to hurt a lot. It already hurts a lot. My mom is dying alone. Our kids are struggling bravely. My community is keeping its cool as best it can, and voices of calm and reason are rising. Stubborn resistance is rising too. Public schools here fly the Black Lives Matter flag, and they're proud of it.
Whatever you do about this, nothing is not an option now. Since that last sentence is very weird, let me explain what I mean: not, "there is nothing that is not an option." I mean, "it is not an option to do nothing now."
The losing side in this game is every living human being on Earth. So it follows as night the day that we are all on the same side. So it's clear that people who point at others and call them enemies, and blame all this crap on them, are just lying. If they get away with it, we will all be extinct in a decade. So stop arguing with fools. Each moment spent doing that is a moment being one.
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