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We don't understand our cultural operating system. The western version has been built over millennia like a Jenga stack, and in our post-modern world, we are ra
by jaybrendansmith 5y ago
We don't understand our cultural operating system. The western version has been built over millennia like a Jenga stack, and in our post-modern world, we are randomly removing bricks with very little thought or understanding of what that brick does. Put in a more software development-friendly way, we are refactoring our cultural OS using search and replace with no idea what the consequences will be for this huge, world-spanning Rube Goldberg device we call the modern world.