How much gas is left in the tank, as in how much time do we actually have before things fundamentally shift and old frameworks collapse entirely?
Practically, this could be understood in two ways, the more common one being us of the younger generation somehow believing the time window to make it is becoming increasingly short before the world goes haywire.
I personally spend a bit too much of my time pondering about this perception, especially how it has evolved through what's happening around the world.
When AI takes our job, what are we left to do? But even the concept of jobs, at least, in the traditional sense has loss a lot of meaning with the changing nature of work.
I applaud those who are trail-blazing their own paths outside of the conventional system for the sheer courage it takes.
It just hits different when you have to figure stuff out for yourself as there's nothing to fall back on other than your own resourcefulness and willingness to create meaning from scratch.
Kind of like zero to one, but from a more existential vantage.
Coming back to the running out of time, I think there's some validity towards the notion that we're experiencing a genuine shift in how the world operates.
It's feel-able in the atmosphere that something unprecedented is happening or about to happen. Not having much of a clear map to put your finger on it opens up a wide array of interpretations that either terrify or excite.
For example, I've come across it being mentioned that WW3 will mark a turning point of sorts and while geopolitical tensions are real (state-based armed conflict ranked as a significant risk, great-power competition between the US and China, resource wars and climate migration on the horizon), the concern isn't really a single catalyzing moment but more so of a poly-crisis, which is a new word I've recently heard and means multiple cascading crises interacting and amplifying one another.
The point is this ambiguity itself is the condition we're living in. Anything can happen and no single entity fully controls the outcome anymore.
Of course, both sides have seemingly expressed desire to reduce tensions. Maybe deal-making is achieved with who knows whatever fragile terms are put in place. Maybe not, and this is just another cycle in a longer pattern we haven't yet understood.
Building something new.
Alternatively, at least the people solving real problems aren't waiting for the system to stabilise. There are gaps for creating optionality, resilience, and alternative structures within the cracks of the old order.
An example here is the emergence of parallel economies, decentralized networks, and community-driven solutions that function independently of traditional institutions. Crypto generally facilitates much of this with new systems of coordination, value exchange, and ownership that don’t rely on centralized permission.
I think that's agency at its finest and we still get to choose the destination to a certain extent.
The gas tank metaphor could also be understood as still having enough to steer toward something intentional we're actually building, and not just surviving the collapse of what came before.
It's all just a matter of perspective.
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