Pluribus on apple Apple TV is fucking great.
Itโs an anti communist/collectivist sci fi show by the Vince Gilligan the creator of Breaking Bad.
Check it out.
I was reading The Beginning Of Infinity and it was breaking my brain.
Then I was like why is thinking so fucking painful?
Deutscheโs work made me realize that we mistake coherence for truth because our brains are optimized for simulation, not verification.
But if we compress reality by creating better explanations, we can re-simulate it more accurately and edge closer to truth.
This hurts because it breaks the old coherence. Every new insight like a neural demolition.
Essentially the mind grows by breaking and reforming itself over and over again.
Which is why real thinking is unpleasant, because itโs a process that if done in earnest destroys parts of your own mind.
But nothing new can form in your mind without this painful fracturing.
This means that collapse is necessary for renewal.
And if itโs true on the individual level, then itโs likely true on the collective level as well.
Which means we cannot stop whatโs coming and further more why would we want to?
Because to stop it is to retard progress and our understanding of reality.
Young disenfranchised white guys getting together and deciding they needed to do identity politics because every other group in the country was ethnically tribal was the absolute easiest prediction I ever made during the woke era.
And now itโs come true.
I keep feeling this dread that A.I + surveillance + drone warfare is going to unleash unspeakable horrors on the world sometime in the next twenty years.
And just like WW2 it will be precipitated by economic collapse.
