Twin reflections from this weekend.
Ideas to take with you.
- 01
Ambient anxiety is monetary in origin, not political — a debt-based system requires continual expansion and invisibly picks who stays solvent and who gets marginalized.
- 02
Shared global events briefly remove the middleman layer that sorts humans into 'us versus them,' and once that feeling is experienced it can't be unlearned.
- 03
Bitcoin functions as a mutually agreed-upon set of rules no one controls — a shared, verifiable event every ten minutes rather than every four years.
- 04
AI is collapsing the cost of pushing knowledge forward; under debt-based money those gains concentrate at the top of the power structure rather than distributing.
- 05
Hedonic adaptation guarantees that whatever abundance arrives becomes the new baseline — gratitude is a practice, not a default state, and future generations will not feel utopian about conditions we would consider miraculous.
