Note I posted on substack. 

Substack has turned into my default posting place now for broader topics. I still post here first for crypto and crypto adjacent stuff.

Great read

You can never go from fall back to summer. You can only progress forward through winter and onward to spring

Let the jackals eat the "carcass of the old order" -- don't stay glued to the brazen displays of graft, it will only demoralize you

Find your Venice and plant seeds for springtime

To me it sounds like defeatism and akin to the notion that Earth is cooked so might as well focus all our attention on populating mars.

Also a privileged take. The global poor don’t get to ignore the destruction of institutions they rely on.

He addresses the latter point, it will be heartbreaking

But what is the alternative? Name some credible opposition that can play well in the current meta

musician: gigameshmusic.com | dev: github.com/gigamesh

Imo the answer is what MLK Jr did: change minds and reform institutions one day at a time over decades. It’s painfully slow and unlucrative, which is why nobody in tech takes that path unless they’re already rich. 

I get why people feel like it’s too late though.