Narrative Slipstream Effects

collective thinking behaviors are treated as epiphenomena at best, and pathologies at worst.

The idea is that it's a system for imagining and executing big projects that actually works. The theory emerges from the intersection of two maxims.

First, there's William Gibson: "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed."

Then, there's William Faulkner: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

Mashing thos

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One mental model for this condition is what I call ark head, as in Noah’s Ark. We’ve given up on the prospect of actually solving or managing most of the snowballing global problems and crises we’re hurtling towards. Or even meaningfully comprehending the gestalt. We’ve accepted that some large fraction of those problems will go unsolved and unmana... See more