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A Time to Ground, Part I: The Spirit of '23

A Time to Ground, Part I: The Spirit of '23

Maybe we're all so exhausted because we keep building on sand.

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James Poulos
Jan 12, 2023
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It makes sense that so many who warn and insist that it's time to build hope to accelerate us through a sequence of their constructions into a new regime, one that can rescue us from the final breakdown of the decaying regime we're in.

The signs of this breakdown are everywhere, saturating every facet of life -- an omnipresence rivaled only by that of technology itself, now largely understood, even by the haters and critics, as the one thing with which and from which we can build.

It's easy to wonder if the inescapable aspect of these two things, the collapse and the technology, happen to be related.

ZOMBIFICATION BLUES

It's early yet but the year's vibe is undeniably exhausted.

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