Freefall

Knowledge and meaning are in freefall.

We’re seeing system collapse before our very eyes. Everything we thought we could trust is slipping through our fingers, evaporating.

Presidents no longer follow the law, politicians no longer practice decency. Scientists are doubted, experts are despised. Education is crumbling. Business is imploding.

Technology is eating itself, eating its own hallucinations. Electricity and silicon and mangled code spit out endless streams of syntax errors and misunderstanding. Logic collapses under its own weight.

Degradation is rampant across every area of technology. Software upgrades are so bad that users actually fear them. Social media has become more psychologically manipulative and destructive. Search engines get worse every year. Surveillance increases, and privacy erodes.

It’s a code-eat-code world. It’s just one damn scam after the other. No one trusts anything. No one trusts anyone.

When the old knowledge hierarchy collapses, what will replace it?

What will arise from the ashes of burning chrome?