The mode of excess is waning. It's painful as heck but the dominant value systems & cultures have been built around vulgar forms of excess powered by rampant exploitatuon of resources & labor. The free ride being over is harsh but a real reality can start to be known & worthwhile g aware cultures created, where costs & sustainability are visible and matter. We're becoming recoupled to the earth & have to tune in to an overdue need for balance.
The genuinely good things will prosper. Open source is the nee-plus-ultra of sustainable. More make & design mentality will spread. We are becoming more aware that many goods & services come with traps, capture more value than they create, and our desire & need to do better grows.
Our technical mediums are rich & potent. Never have we been enabled to do so much with so little. Learning & creating vast & wild presences that are globe-spanning connective global medias is imminently within reach, a potential tempered chiefly by the good-enough big-online systems of the day. Although there is little sign of change, I have little worry that eventually new wider spread bases of cool will spring forth, that eventually good-enough will be too old-hat, to ossified, that we'll naturally gravitate towards newer more exciting means of interconnecting with each other & onlining ourselves. Likely in some of these realms we'll see better self-sovereign/web-of-trust moderation, rating, review, & feedback systems- all explorations of how we can better manage the flood of information, sorting out the good & high road from the chaos & churn of the louder more grabby low-road.
Global aggressors & bad actors keep getting more visibility. The ability to create insular & isolated cultures comes at more visoble cost, requires deepining & worsening reality distortion fields which seem to have ever more critical points as the lies propping up the constructed narrative grow. Like I began with, but in a sociopplitical way here: a more real reality rises.
The genuinely good things will prosper. Open source is the nee-plus-ultra of sustainable. More make & design mentality will spread. We are becoming more aware that many goods & services come with traps, capture more value than they create, and our desire & need to do better grows.
Our technical mediums are rich & potent. Never have we been enabled to do so much with so little. Learning & creating vast & wild presences that are globe-spanning connective global medias is imminently within reach, a potential tempered chiefly by the good-enough big-online systems of the day. Although there is little sign of change, I have little worry that eventually new wider spread bases of cool will spring forth, that eventually good-enough will be too old-hat, to ossified, that we'll naturally gravitate towards newer more exciting means of interconnecting with each other & onlining ourselves. Likely in some of these realms we'll see better self-sovereign/web-of-trust moderation, rating, review, & feedback systems- all explorations of how we can better manage the flood of information, sorting out the good & high road from the chaos & churn of the louder more grabby low-road.
Global aggressors & bad actors keep getting more visibility. The ability to create insular & isolated cultures comes at more visoble cost, requires deepining & worsening reality distortion fields which seem to have ever more critical points as the lies propping up the constructed narrative grow. Like I began with, but in a sociopplitical way here: a more real reality rises.