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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I’m offering you perspective from a generation that came before. I grew up during the cold war. When they all taught us to death and cover under our flimsy school desks to deflect a nuclear blast. In just a decade or two we will be reaching the centennial anniversary of man achieving the power to wipe out nearly all life on Earth. This all feels pretty prescidented.

    The petty squabbling of bitter old men, the hanging sword of Damocles, and automated systems threatening to bring it all down on top of us . It’s all so familiar and well discussed. I’m certainly not saying that things aren’t serious or daunting. They are. But I’m not sure that they are unprecedented. Honestly it’s the fact this is all so well precidented that should demand more people’s action. And not just sitting and waiting.


  • It’s not cynicism. Farthest thing from. If anything it is positivity. Noting the clear parallels to Nazi Germany. it is important that people acknowledge them. And stop waiting to see what’s going to happen.

    Even more importantly. Is to not feel how the fascists want you to feel. Hopeless and despondent.

    I never said historians would gloss over it or write it off. They write over the smallest minutiae in the greatest detail. And while they’re doing that they will point out this similarity to events that have happened before. The sooner we recognize this for what it is. The sooner maybe we can alter course.