League of frogs needs sub-labels
Oil end-game needs old-economy greenling
I’ve blocked out quite a large Karen-land. Not sure why, but intuition is they’re somehow important
Oh yeah they’re normalcy reactionaries soul-sucking dementors refusing to acknowledge the Weirding. I’ll put it inside a shrunken manufactured normalcy field some 🤔
Need inflation in there somewhere
Hmm. Where to put Twitter now? I guess in Karenland since Karen Musk bought it 🤔
Tiktok in Xi land or metamodern? 🤔🤔
This is hard stuff. I just make it look easy. You’re welcome.
These things take a keystone thing to come together. For me it was zero-knowledge proofs and looming appearance of quantum computing. The map naturally organizes itself around that.
Feels like I’m missing biology somehow. mRNA next to covid? BCI between AI and robots?
Another difference from 2016 map is there are no landscape-shaping individuals. Permaweird is too hyper complex for individuals to loom large, Big Men or small. The era of Big Men is done. Only name that appears is Xi but he’s only pwned China, not reshaped it
2016 map had Trump, Bernie, Hillary looming large. The map org was the Thiel 2x2. Bezos, Musk, Thiel had named presences.
2022 map… that sort of thing feels wrong
Might put a harambe motif somewhere though
Open for comments and additions for a week before I get it into production
Items must be at least potentially world post-historically significant, not just your pet themes
Oh 2x2 logic is clear:
X: pre-post Weirding,
Y: AI vs crypto ~= commie vs libertarian
Thiel gets a bit of structural credit here too. Half an axis. In 2016 I used his determinate/indeterminate optimist/pessimist 2x2 fully
Tempted to do an overarching LOTR theme and make Karenland Mordor. Mt. Doom could be a premium mediocre mall. Not too strict. Loose rings of power vibe.