Connecting is the antidote
Dear world… Connection is what we need.
All the time, on crack.
Not infighting, not even intellectual debate. I’ve seen people debating the historical relevance of the goddamn bible lately, which is hilarious. It’s a fable my friends, and we need to create new stories, not rehash the obsolete ones to find meaning in a world that’s moved beyond.
The time for rugged individualism and every human for themselves, is over. The time for dogmatic thinking and religions from the old world – over.
This is how the AI controls us. This is how big tech controls us.
The way to face a world in turmoil, the way to have hope despite endless descending wars we have little control over, is connecting.
Call the person you like and ask them out. Just be brave and do it. Text a friend you haven’t seen in ages and make a plan together. Gather people for dinner, for a park party, for an arvo beer in the backyard. Reach out to someone estranged who you still think of and make contact. It’s worth it.
Slogging away at life admin and earning dollars as the main persuit day in day out – is over, is boring, and is soon going to be irrelevant.
We need to be fostering community, we need to know our neighbours, we need to have chat groups hammering, we need to have regular dates and rituals and happenings to mark time and to look forward to.
I plan shit months in advance, and my calendar is often full, but I will make time, I have time, for humans to get in my life. Get on my couch, get in my yard. Send me a flirty message dammit. Call me even if you only know me on here. Say the hard things, say the nice things. Take a human risk.
I do it every day, and not everyone responds. But I feel so good doing it, it’s addictive. Connection is addictive and it’s what we need to face the future.
The fact that you’ve been born right here, right now is non-computable. You are not a lucky roll of dice. You are a single realised outcome in a universe that does not rerun the experiment.
Make it worth it. Act like it.
It’s 2026 and for the first time this year – may I remind you that I love you. :)
