I think there will have to be a happening.
Insane simulation theory says we will be that beginning, after we 'do what we have to' and 'ascend'.
I was once up for 6 days on ethylphenidate writing this dumb story about the frozen wastelands of our post automation future, and I literally believed God was going to flood this world and I would have to start things over in the old Greek days of eudaimonia. It was rather... strange.
I hope all is well.
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