Just reflecting on how pandemic has completely cornered attention far beyond anything I’ve seen. Beyond fall of wall, gulf war, 9/11 etc by orders of magnitude. It hasn’t just sucked attention away from those activities, it has shut them down. Life is domesticity and distancing
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It’s not a great state but it’s not terrible. I can imagine life on a planet that’s permanently like this because everything is lava. Annares was a harsh desert world.
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Kinda sucks to live with a 24h horizon on endless repeat though. Groundhog Day. Except at an intellectual level we’re trying different things to figure out an exit.
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Cracks me up that there’s a real apocalypse scenario here: no vaccine, no treatment, too much mutation for herd immunity, morphing attack, and the thing just kills another big slice of us each time we try to open up until collapse. Very low likelihood but not zero.
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Like a horror movie where a group is trapped in a cabin and each time one of them makes a run for it the monster gets them. But food is running out in cabin. So only a matter of time before the monster or starvation gets them.
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Something very mellow, gentle and contrarian about this apocalypse. Like the big bad wolf being murdered and eaten by grandma
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So many people so busy either just coping or trying to solve the problem that they haven’t noticed the other-worldly character of this situation. The only thing that would compare is migration to Mars
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This is hardly a novel take, but it's fairly familiar (in different ways) if you were already disabled and/or freelancing in the Before Times.
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I find myself mostly focused on the external changes, because internally / locally, not much is different.
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I had an epiphany! What if China becoming more and more like Urras is making the US more like Annares? Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_of_the_Idols …
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