Love this. If you start a virtual fight club, sign me up. The only point here I'd pick a friendly fight with is about the Unknowns. Seems like there are plenty enough Unknowns to keep me confused and full of wonder, and plenty of bottomless un-grid-like networks of wormholes to explore.
It’s a huge stretch to say that not using maps is the cause of zoomers not knowing how to use computers. It’d be one thing to say it’s correlated, but it was described as causative.
I have been fascinated for a long time about the effect on the world of no longer having any unknown frontiers. Throughout human history, there was always somewhere for the nonconformist, the rule breaker, the eccentric to go if they couldn’t fit in at home. The entirety of the US is really the result of relentless frontier-seeking. Now our rule breakers and nonconformists have to explore cyberspace or become scientists to study the ocean or space-- and not all of them are suited to science. It seems to me there’s a fundamental set of human traits related to exploration and rejection of the status quo, which now have little or no outlet. I can see a lot of potential problems resulting from that--
ohhhh i like it!
Love this. If you start a virtual fight club, sign me up. The only point here I'd pick a friendly fight with is about the Unknowns. Seems like there are plenty enough Unknowns to keep me confused and full of wonder, and plenty of bottomless un-grid-like networks of wormholes to explore.
Looking forward to part 2!
Yup that point definitely needs to be defended/unpacked a bit, but that's the major focus of part 2...coming soonish ;)
It’s a huge stretch to say that not using maps is the cause of zoomers not knowing how to use computers. It’d be one thing to say it’s correlated, but it was described as causative.
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I have been fascinated for a long time about the effect on the world of no longer having any unknown frontiers. Throughout human history, there was always somewhere for the nonconformist, the rule breaker, the eccentric to go if they couldn’t fit in at home. The entirety of the US is really the result of relentless frontier-seeking. Now our rule breakers and nonconformists have to explore cyberspace or become scientists to study the ocean or space-- and not all of them are suited to science. It seems to me there’s a fundamental set of human traits related to exploration and rejection of the status quo, which now have little or no outlet. I can see a lot of potential problems resulting from that--
I do, big fan. Referencing him in part 2!
Well said! Only touched on it in part 1, but this (i.e. frontiers or the lack thereof) is the major theme of part 2 :)
Close the window, pin the scarab beetle to a Cartesian grid.