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mk  ·  4608 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Venkatesh Rao: Welcome to the Future Nauseous
This brings to mind WWI, where waves of men would charge towards machine guns in an effort to saturate the spray of bullets with flesh.

IMO this could be described as a disconnect between the Normalcy Field and an inescapable future.

No doubt the discussion of climate change is distorted by the Normalcy Field: If it's not obviously happening, it's simply not happening. The definition of it 'happening' is then 'when the Normalcy Field can't absorb it'. -Which is really what we are hoping to avoid in the first place.