Fragments From Twitter

Apocalypse means “revealing” or “uncovering”.

This is a post-apocalyptic society.

Not everyone has accepted that.

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The system gets stronger when you get weaker.

You get stronger when the system gets weaker.

This is true of all systems.

Your phone is already listening to the words you say and sending you advertising in accordance.

You don’t think it will ever listen to what you think and respond in kind?

Why not?

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At some point in time it stops becoming a “propaganda apparatus” and becomes a “metaphysical ontology”

Trying to describe what the world felt like before smartphones is probably a worthwhile endeavor

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The Great Cusp we live through will not be pre/post internet.

It will actually be that our internet was the last time you had the biophysical ability to get on and off of it.

In the future your body will always be logged on.

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More Americans are familiar with the phrase “power bottom” than they are with the growth stages of a tomato plant.

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Things in the world gets done by either

1. A small group of highly competent, extremely motivated people often bound by a higher ideal beyond the material.

2. A bunch of paychecks who couldn’t care less and do it because “boss said to do it.”

You can do anything with that.

Imagine what group 1 could do with total control of group 2.

While the people in the middle who are really bad at their jobs and spend all day talking about Netflix are totally certain that if there was a secret club they’d know about it.

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You should download some pdfs and videos that you enjoy and contain valuable information.

They won’t be on the internet forever.

It could save your life.

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You can’t even pretend to know what is going on in someone else’s head nowadays.

They might as well live on Mars.

It could stay like this for a thousand years.

We’re already in a kind of society wide pre-dementia, our technologies allowing us to travel back in time by playing movies and shows that soothe us in some way that is hard to describe.

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A dirty kid runs up to you on a crowded street and tries to get you a little trinket or jar of spice telling you the same story that someone told him.

Both of you in darkness as to it’s powers and provenance.

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How do we know we’re not the bad guys?

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You’re going to see increasingly odd synthetic weather events, strange objects and lights in the sky, many of which will be ignored until the time is right.