Kill the Economy

[GliderGuider]

138. There is no Sorcerer, there is just us.

I don't expect us to be able to magic our way out of this with science. We need magic, and science doesn't do magic. This is why for me it all comes back to the personal.

I feel that many aspects of our unfolding reality are being driven more by impersonal external forces than by human volition. At the same time, the aspects of life that are most important and satisfying to us as individuals have always been those matters of personal choice. This reinforces my sense that all significant human-driven change in the coming years will happen at the grass roots, among individuals making personal choices for personal reasons.

Something is whispering to me that the stark juxtaposition of personal, individual choices and impersonal global forces will become the overarching narrative of the next decades. In that story-line, the institutions through which we have traditionally interacted with the world - politics, economics, science and religion to name just a few - may become (are becoming?) increasingly irrelevant.

I think humanity is out of time, but what that means in terms of specifics I haven't the foggiest idea. The universe sets the stage, while we get to write and perform the play. That's good enough for me.