I think this prompts some kind of directional update in me. My paraphrase of this is:
it’s actually pretty ridiculous to think you can steer the future
It’s also pretty ridiculous to choose to identify with what the future is likely to be.
Therefore…. Well, you don’t spell out your answer. My answer is “I should have a personal meaning-making resolution to ‘what would I do if those two things are both true,’ even if one of them turns out to be false, so that I can think clearly about whether they are true.”
I’ve done a fair amount of similar meaningmaking work through the lens of Solstice 2022 and 2023. But that was more through lens of ‘nearterm extinction’ than ‘inevitability of value loss’, which does feel like a notably different thing.
So it seems worth doing some thinking and pre-grieving about that.
I of course have some answers to ‘why value loss might not be inevitable’, but it’s not something I’ve yet thought about through an unclouded lens.
Therefore, do things you’d be in favor of having done even if the future will definitely suck. Things that are good today, next year, fifty years from now… but not like “institute theocracy to raise birth rates”, which is awful today even if you think it might “save the world”.
I think this prompts some kind of directional update in me. My paraphrase of this is:
it’s actually pretty ridiculous to think you can steer the future
It’s also pretty ridiculous to choose to identify with what the future is likely to be.
Therefore…. Well, you don’t spell out your answer. My answer is “I should have a personal meaning-making resolution to ‘what would I do if those two things are both true,’ even if one of them turns out to be false, so that I can think clearly about whether they are true.”
I’ve done a fair amount of similar meaningmaking work through the lens of Solstice 2022 and 2023. But that was more through lens of ‘nearterm extinction’ than ‘inevitability of value loss’, which does feel like a notably different thing.
So it seems worth doing some thinking and pre-grieving about that.
I of course have some answers to ‘why value loss might not be inevitable’, but it’s not something I’ve yet thought about through an unclouded lens.
Therefore, do things you’d be in favor of having done even if the future will definitely suck. Things that are good today, next year, fifty years from now… but not like “institute theocracy to raise birth rates”, which is awful today even if you think it might “save the world”.
Ah yeah that’s a much more specific takeaway than I’d been imagining.