REPORT FROM THE FUTURE
Appreciation due Mark McInerney for inspiring humanity
The parade for Trump’s birthday, held in 2025, was so revolting to the large majority of Americans, that included many people who had voted for Trump in the two steps forward one step back way of progress, that it got us off the deadly path humanity was on. Americans had had enough. It was our Berlin Wall moment, after the worst president of all time’s failure to keep campaign promises had gotten so many of his supporters to disaffect from him. Also contributory to his demise had been the smart decision for speeches at all the protests that day to cheerlead for how magnificent humanity can be that had gotten us to take a leap into being as incredible as we were designed to become.
There were two contributions that preceded that penultimate moment that were causal to it. One was the writing of Mark McInerney, a newcomer to Substack, whom I luckily happened to be reading before others found him and I like to think I had some responsibility for his becoming the Substack writer who now has the most subscribers. Although the positions he took were much the same as those of other pundits who had been blowing whistles with clarity and passion, what aligned everyone so effectively was the quality of his writing. We all are speed-reading almost everything to take in more than the hours in the days otherwise would permit, but Mark is a read-every-word writer so you don’t miss lines like these that I’ve extracted from just one post, The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk, to give you the flavor of how easily, when reading what Mark writes, the medicine goes down:
Elon Musk made his first fortune not by building cars or rockets, but by wiring the plumbing of internet commerce…And then he bought Twitter. That was the pivot—from visionary to vandal. From the man who wanted to save the planet, to the man who couldn't stop retweeting fascists…The world watched the richest man alive burn down a global public square because he thought moderation was tyranny. Let’s not pretend this was public service. This was piracy…he did what every vandal does when handed the keys to a cathedral: he stripped the copper from the walls, pissed on the altar, and called it innovation…Musk didn’t just kill a program. He amputated the moral arm of American foreign policy and left millions to bleed out in the dirt. He didn’t just disrupt a government. He disfigured America’s soul…that nation now staggers under the shadow of a man who thought foreign aid was a rounding error…This wasn’t innovation. It was infiltration. He didn’t reform the system. He exploited it…And as his political ambitions collapsed under the weight of his own hubris, so too did the house of Tesla. Once the crown jewel of his empire, Tesla has become ground zero for public revolt.
The other gamechanger was after these fantasy videos, of our rulers taking psychedelics, showed up online:
These wild shows got lightbulbs to go off that led to ecstasy being slipped to Trump and to Musk, and, when it got them to wake up to what was so brilliantly foretold in the videos, everything changed. With ecstasy being a fast track to the heart, a caring and loving Trump arranged for chemists to get it into the water supply. In indigenous societies children partake of substances that keep everyone tuned into being of Earth and not just on it, so no harm done to our kids in using them to get humanity shifted to thinking of itself as being divine, and then, of course, to being cooperative.
We are not out of the woods. Overshoot has us past survival-as-we -know-it boundaries. But, in recognizing ourselves as the family of humanity we took the essential step whereby we ended warring, smoothed out income inequality, and started thinking together about how to navigate the future. With Trump becoming as fierce about saving the world as he had been dedicated to destroying it – witness how he decriminalized mind-altering substances after the effect they had on him – and Musk devoting the world’s biggest fortune to supporting Trump’s efforts, it was game-on for what this awesome species could do. With the reduced consumption we shifted to, and everyone in localized, caring communities where ostentation was replaced by a heartfulness that makes life worth living, we are hell bent on getting everything to work out for us so humanity can stick around past a sell-by date, that’s up now, that has applied to all the civilizations that preceded ours.
PS: This could have been my entry in the Essay Contest I held last year, where people wrote as if it was 2050 and the world was working!
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Hi Sue! Thanks for featuring my AI experiments on Trump and Elon! Those are from last August and I’ve made a few more since then. Most recently this one Love Force One https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJpN9MmxEbX/?igsh=Yjd5ZTNpaW1tNHE=
Thanks for your ongoing efforts Suzanne! I like to think that we are largely on the same page regarding the destination, though may have different routes to get there.
Having evolved to be social entities, I continued to suspect that we are predisposed to live in harmony with others and the planet — were something not getting in the way. I believe that "something" is our current social model of individualism, competition, and relentless acquisition (largely economic).
Whether by design or merely an unfortunate consequence of our particular economics, we are never allowed to be fully secure and at rest. The “good life” for most of us is always just out-of-reach — and actually seems to be receding for all but the 1%. This, accompanied by the fear that others may be getting “ahead” of us — and in a way that will dim our own future prospects. In result, rather than regarding others as companions on a collective enterprise, we tend to be closed off, wary, and mistrustful of others — or even resentful. (Note how much of our media - both factual and fictional - centers around highlighting the misfortunes of others for its entertainment value.) Thus we stay divided and conquered.
I would like to see our community of thinkers start planning for and crafting a fundamental new social model — less “every man for himself” and more about recognizing that “we all do better when we all do better”.