S is for swords, for stillness, for strength, for There is Still Strength Left in the world of men!!! (And women, and đŠs.)
Hello everyone, good morning! Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. For our meeting this morning, weâve invited our strategy consultant friends to help us make a decision on our budgeting process for next quarter, what should we invest in, or should we even invest at all - are markets going to crash or stay flat or start to go up again, and if so, how high and how far? Well, to frame our decision-making process, they have just one slide, this little two-by-two graph:
| đ Pessimism | đ Optimism đ đ€ | |
|---|---|---|
| đ€Â Determinate | The future is definitely going to be worse, at exactly this date and time, when global warming wreaks havoc, when they launch nukes đ, when inequality results in billionaires taking over, and the đ„·đ»đŻIlluminati reveal themselves as tyrants, right before weâre all just exploited and forced to hard manual labor, then turned into bits, then blown to smithereens!!! đ€Ż | You. Convince me. Tell me exactly how, and exactly why things are going to get better. And why youâre so hopeful about this future, this world youâll leave us when youâre gone â because youâll be the one, the one we were hoping for, the one who didnât let us down, who showed us the way⊠âïž |
| đ±Â Indeterminate đ° | Murphyâs Law! Gotta beat Murphy before Murphy beats you! I donât know exactly how things will fall apart, whether it will be fast or slow, whether it will be today or a long time from now, but I donât really see what the point of trying so hard is, or the point of life, which is kind of tragic, and probably going to keep getting a little bit worse, worse and worse, đ€·đ»ââïžÂ although Iâm not sure exactly how, or why - why bother. đ€ | Maybe the future is better than the past, but meh, maybe not that much better. How will it be better? I dunno. Your guess is as good as mine. But it probably has something to do with AI and markets - just sit back, relax, buy some stocks and donât worry, technology will save us, probably⊠hopefully⊠maybe. đ€Ą |
Is there any hope that this war ends, and inflation doesnât destroy all wealth, and technology will save us, or something else? Sometimes it seems that only a god can save us, which is such a shame, because weâre grown ups, and we know that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy donât exist - nor can any mortal man or woman or unicorn⊠So what are we to do, but look to impersonal forces, class structures, and technology? But donât worry. Technology will save us. Technology that someone else will build though. Not us. Not me. I have no idea, no ideas, after all, about how to solve all the worldâs problems. Thatâs a bit too egotistical for me. Iâll just tend my garden. Gardening in the apocalypse⊠Musing about problems, problems so daunting, weâre probably doomed. But meanwhile, letâs enjoy it⊠Letâs sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
<aside> đ€ș Is there still strength left? Weâre skeptical. Convince us at [email protected].
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So go ahead... Convince us. That the work you do is important. That youâre actually⊠hahaha!!! Ha! Theyâre the crazy ones - they believe!
Go ahead. Convince us That 1984 wonât be 1984⊠That youâre actually Going to change it -
Convince us that youâre going to change the world.