Binary Brain

We’re living in a crazy world. The way that media – social and old – are treating Covid-19 is like watching my 3 and 4 year old argue over the existence of zombies. There are micro and macro level causalities. Micro-causalities can be relatively simple and easy to follow. Macro-causalities quickly become complicated and links between stages in causality can be impossible to follow, let alone predict. The Covid-19 discussion is mostly about macro-causalities. We shouldn’t be discussing things in terms of surely this or certainly that. Those statements are not only wrong, but impossible. All of the predictions were false and, yet, we keep discussing them and prognosticating about the future as if we will be more right this time than last time. I struggle to exist today in a world that has seen the results of bad projections and bad speculation. Remember Trump couldn’t possibly win?

We are manipulating – and often ruining – people’s lives by developing projections and using said projections to coerce people into a given set of behavior. It is hubris pure and makes me think that we really are living amongst children.