Of Two Minds

We need a new definition of Progress, and a reset of the mythology guiding our descent into “Anti-Progress”.

Or we can let the bubble implode under its own weight and have a plan ready to clean house when the dust settles.

The core skill going forward–frugality–is largely a forgotten skillset. Time to get busy while we still have time.

This has now reached the point that corporations and institutions are in effect “mining what remains of our trust” to boost profits / private gains.

That most of us live in a low-value, low-trust economy of shoddy goods and services hidden beneath high-tech frictionless, faceless transactions is not recognized.

Those few who grasp the crisis in its entirety have been marginalized, and those who are left are drifting downstream, unable to move the mass of self-interested inertia even if they wanted to.