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Preface:
reset - to set again or set anew.
In which case(s) would one need to begin anew? When the conditions are so adverse that correction would require more effort than starting from nothing would. I think of my childhood, particularly playing on the NES at my friend’s house, and of that RESET button. Did the game freeze? Reset. Is somebody beating you? Reset. Did you finish the game but don’t wish to watch the mandatory credits scroll down the screen? Reset. The final simile I’ll make is a car. If your vehicle is in a collision and the cost to repair the damage exceeds 80% (in most places) of the fair market value, it’s declared a total loss. That’s a bit of a generalization and it’s more complicated than that, but it’s a condition based reset that many of us have probably experienced, and there are many more.
Onward
what are the conditions at play? I can think of environmental, biological, and social/intellectual. Social/intellectual are two distinct conditions, though they do overlap or have contingencies or dependencies between them. I’m sure there are more conditions.
drilling into environmental; we are polluting the earth, but I don’t believe it’s critical. It’s like a beautiful hike along a nature trail and seeing beer cans and candy wrappers alongside. It’s not ruined. Micro plastics in the ocean are bad. Air pollution isn’t great either. But it’s nowhere near time to pack up and move to the shopping mall in outer space (wall-e) to consume our days away. Climate change is also curious… I believe that our climate is improving, yet it’s been discussed on an international stage that the opposite is what’s happening. I see no need to reset here.
biological reasons for reset are also missing to me. We don’t have any real contagion to speak of, wiping us away. We’re still fully capable of reproduction and perpetuation of our species. I do see a potential here of destroying our ability to reproduce with these mRNA jabs and the proliferation of non-procreating couples. other biological ailments (cancers, congenital defects, infections and diseases) I consider to be navigable via lifestyle choice and careful consideration of food sources and chemical or biological exposures. We’re not trending well as a people, but it’s still very salvageable.
social conditions however, these are bad. I see radical and destructive ideology being pushed at every level and from every angle. I see race wars, the destruction of nature’s sexual binary, wanton and brazen theft and violence, normalization of pedophilia, and the general inversion of right/wrong or good/bad. I could see us rapidly approaching the point of no return here.
it’s possible that intellectual conditions should have preceded social here, as it seems that the intellectual decline of humanity has enabled the social decline. The majority of humanity with which I see and interact with, they’re not creators or innovators; they’re consumers. A few minutes spent on TikTok will highlight the intellectual void that is growing. Lots of people don’t even try to reason, think for themselves, or even spell words properly. They rely on phones to correct their words, MSM to give them knowledge and opinion, and authority to govern them and their peers. I’m not entirely sure how much further humanity can descend before it’s too late.
Back to reset
so here I would suppose that, at most, there are two primary forces in our realm. I won’t call them good and bad, as that’s too subjective. I’ll call them pro-human and anti-human. I use the term “pro-human” loosely, and not to indicate an interest in the well-being of individual humans, but more so to indicate a goal or aspiration that includes or even requires humanity as a whole. It seems that we’ve collectively accepted that anti-human forces are responsible for resets, and I get that. A populational reset would be a powerful tool of oppression for the anti-humans: if we stray too far from their agenda, if we uncover too many truths, or if we grow too strong… level it and start again.
I’d like to propose the notion that a reset event may be executed by the pro-humanity forces, not necessarily for “our” own good, but maybe because we as a whole are no longer fit for the purpose.
for those of you who enjoyed SimCity in your adolescence, you may recall disabling natural disasters, terraforming your land for maximum utility, building your city’s fundamentals based upon lessons learned in previous iterations. If you’re quite like me, you might have built massive infrastructure and let the game run unattended overnight, hoping to awaken to a bustling metropolis. While you placed enough utilities, schools, police departments, fire departments, hospitals, commercial and industrial space, air and sea ports to facilitate the growth, you may have forgotten cemeteries and crematoriums. Similarly, you may have awoken to a massive city in a state of decay, where generations of dead bodies had nowhere to go, disease was rampant, and ultimately you had to wipe the slate and give it another go with your city in shambles and an insurmountable budgetary deficit.
I wiped my cities countless times. I’m sure there were good people and bad people in my cities, but when wiping time came there was no rapture. There was no amount of “people” spared or carried over to the next round, at least not in any fashion exposed to the operator. I didn’t wipe my cities “for the good of the people” but because they were no longer fit for the purpose.
to bring all of these rambling and incoherent points together: maybe we don’t have nefarious anti-human forces resetting us as we grow too near forbidden knowledge or self-realization. Maybe we don’t have anti-human forces harvesting us or our qualities in a cyclical fashion. Maybe the anti-human forces are simply capitalist endeavorers who call dibs on what’s left of each reset like hyenas on a discarded zebra carcass when the lions have had their fill.
maybe, just maybe, the pro-human force(s) reset us when we’re no longer fit, like shooting a lame horse.
maybe we’re doing this to ourselves inadvertently (or otherwise)
if you made it all the way through that, pat yourself on the back.
reset - to set again or set anew.
In which case(s) would one need to begin anew? When the conditions are so adverse that correction would require more effort than starting from nothing would. I think of my childhood, particularly playing on the NES at my friend’s house, and of that RESET button. Did the game freeze? Reset. Is somebody beating you? Reset. Did you finish the game but don’t wish to watch the mandatory credits scroll down the screen? Reset. The final simile I’ll make is a car. If your vehicle is in a collision and the cost to repair the damage exceeds 80% (in most places) of the fair market value, it’s declared a total loss. That’s a bit of a generalization and it’s more complicated than that, but it’s a condition based reset that many of us have probably experienced, and there are many more.
Onward
what are the conditions at play? I can think of environmental, biological, and social/intellectual. Social/intellectual are two distinct conditions, though they do overlap or have contingencies or dependencies between them. I’m sure there are more conditions.
drilling into environmental; we are polluting the earth, but I don’t believe it’s critical. It’s like a beautiful hike along a nature trail and seeing beer cans and candy wrappers alongside. It’s not ruined. Micro plastics in the ocean are bad. Air pollution isn’t great either. But it’s nowhere near time to pack up and move to the shopping mall in outer space (wall-e) to consume our days away. Climate change is also curious… I believe that our climate is improving, yet it’s been discussed on an international stage that the opposite is what’s happening. I see no need to reset here.
biological reasons for reset are also missing to me. We don’t have any real contagion to speak of, wiping us away. We’re still fully capable of reproduction and perpetuation of our species. I do see a potential here of destroying our ability to reproduce with these mRNA jabs and the proliferation of non-procreating couples. other biological ailments (cancers, congenital defects, infections and diseases) I consider to be navigable via lifestyle choice and careful consideration of food sources and chemical or biological exposures. We’re not trending well as a people, but it’s still very salvageable.
social conditions however, these are bad. I see radical and destructive ideology being pushed at every level and from every angle. I see race wars, the destruction of nature’s sexual binary, wanton and brazen theft and violence, normalization of pedophilia, and the general inversion of right/wrong or good/bad. I could see us rapidly approaching the point of no return here.
it’s possible that intellectual conditions should have preceded social here, as it seems that the intellectual decline of humanity has enabled the social decline. The majority of humanity with which I see and interact with, they’re not creators or innovators; they’re consumers. A few minutes spent on TikTok will highlight the intellectual void that is growing. Lots of people don’t even try to reason, think for themselves, or even spell words properly. They rely on phones to correct their words, MSM to give them knowledge and opinion, and authority to govern them and their peers. I’m not entirely sure how much further humanity can descend before it’s too late.
Back to reset
so here I would suppose that, at most, there are two primary forces in our realm. I won’t call them good and bad, as that’s too subjective. I’ll call them pro-human and anti-human. I use the term “pro-human” loosely, and not to indicate an interest in the well-being of individual humans, but more so to indicate a goal or aspiration that includes or even requires humanity as a whole. It seems that we’ve collectively accepted that anti-human forces are responsible for resets, and I get that. A populational reset would be a powerful tool of oppression for the anti-humans: if we stray too far from their agenda, if we uncover too many truths, or if we grow too strong… level it and start again.
I’d like to propose the notion that a reset event may be executed by the pro-humanity forces, not necessarily for “our” own good, but maybe because we as a whole are no longer fit for the purpose.
for those of you who enjoyed SimCity in your adolescence, you may recall disabling natural disasters, terraforming your land for maximum utility, building your city’s fundamentals based upon lessons learned in previous iterations. If you’re quite like me, you might have built massive infrastructure and let the game run unattended overnight, hoping to awaken to a bustling metropolis. While you placed enough utilities, schools, police departments, fire departments, hospitals, commercial and industrial space, air and sea ports to facilitate the growth, you may have forgotten cemeteries and crematoriums. Similarly, you may have awoken to a massive city in a state of decay, where generations of dead bodies had nowhere to go, disease was rampant, and ultimately you had to wipe the slate and give it another go with your city in shambles and an insurmountable budgetary deficit.
I wiped my cities countless times. I’m sure there were good people and bad people in my cities, but when wiping time came there was no rapture. There was no amount of “people” spared or carried over to the next round, at least not in any fashion exposed to the operator. I didn’t wipe my cities “for the good of the people” but because they were no longer fit for the purpose.
to bring all of these rambling and incoherent points together: maybe we don’t have nefarious anti-human forces resetting us as we grow too near forbidden knowledge or self-realization. Maybe we don’t have anti-human forces harvesting us or our qualities in a cyclical fashion. Maybe the anti-human forces are simply capitalist endeavorers who call dibs on what’s left of each reset like hyenas on a discarded zebra carcass when the lions have had their fill.
maybe, just maybe, the pro-human force(s) reset us when we’re no longer fit, like shooting a lame horse.
maybe we’re doing this to ourselves inadvertently (or otherwise)
if you made it all the way through that, pat yourself on the back.
