Control vs Adaptation

De-globalization must be stopped, environmentalists argue, because only a Global World has the institutional power to stop Climate Change. Without world government the planet is doomed.

Conventional wisdom since Brave New World held that technology would make it easier for hierarchies to control things. What was less appreciated was technology would also increase complexity and surprise hierarchies with emergent phenomena. What is the net effect?

The recent results of the global world vs Covid are significant because they are a reasonable proxy and predictor for the outcome of World Govt vs Climate Change project, except that Climate is a far more complex system than Covid.

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The True Newspaper

Maybe we are living in a partial simulation with the parts we sense indirectly only through the media and the network consisting of complete fakes.

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December 27, 2022

I am fairly sure the keyboard under my fingers is real, but how do I know whether Elizabeth Warren is tribal, George Santos matriculated from Baruch or Nancy Pelosi’s ice cream freezer truly exists? I know. I’ll check the papers! If it’s on TV it must be true.

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In defense of longing

CS Lewis observed that our wishes, no less than our acts, are part of agency. Desires, petitions and prayers are not less futile than works simply because they may not succeed. Longing is legitimate in an interactive world and we should dare to live; dare to pray.

Lewis returns to the theme of the poverty of modern desire in the Weight of Glory; that the limits of modern longing are too often restricted to sex, drugs and consumption. Yet it surprisingly explains the air of grimness prevalent in Woke ideology.

There’s been a sea-change in our zeitgeist, gone in a generation from Freeman Dyson’s observation that the universe was waiting for us to the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement; that we have no right to desire for we are too low for that.

A quote by Freeman Dyson
The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were com…

Perhaps the greatest factor in the saga of human survival comes of the stubborn quest for what Lewis calls “our own far off country”. It led us on and on; in closing the door on prayer and longing we can shut off the last glimpse of it, finally grateful for the turn of the key.

The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors by Dan Jones. In this groundbreaking narrative history, Dan Jones tells the true story of the Templars for the first time in a generation, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors whose heroism and alleged depravity have been shrouded in myth.  Jones brings their dramatic tale to life in a book that is at once authoritative and compulsively readable.

Proof of Work is what we pay to protect us from ourselves

Kathy Hochul tried to color it Green, but Bitcoin is the color of money.

In Defense of Bitcoin | The Pipeline
Instantaneous, secure and very difficult to trace.

How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future, Kindle Edition by Vaclav Smil. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on, Vaclav Smil explains the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity – from energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to our environment and its future. This book offers a much-needed reality check and answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead?

Two birds with one stone

Checks paid by robots. Climate reparations from the cemetery.

‘Global Warming’ Meets the Kobayashi Maru | The Pipeline
Do we celebrate the decrease of people in productive economies or fear it?

Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives 2nd Edition by Vaclav Smil. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in a realistic appraisal of the current state of energy transitions in various nations and regions and the likely future development of the global energy supply.

The Twitter Files

New at the Belmont Club. The autocrats take no prisoners.

Pitiless Politics
Everyone’s playing for keeps

How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future, Kindle Edition by Vaclav Smil. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on, Vaclav Smil explains the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity – from energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to our environment and its future. This book offers a much-needed reality check and answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead?