We should have become SciFi novelist?!
Probably would have had at least 80% of our story line manifest into 2023.
Discussion
Even weirder was writing some thesises a couple of years later on how DNA manipulation would enter mainstream culture…
We didn’t even quite understand what we were writing ourselves haha!
Need to get those papers out of the safe stored back in Europistan, but even just going back is a real risk & cost compared with anything that could happen here…
Had you published, your book would have likely been on some best seller list. Probably going back at least 10 years.
Reminds me of this....
George Bernard Shaw who famously declared that “youth is wasted on the young.” He later expounded upon his derogatory remark about young people of the day that “they're brainless, and don't know what they have; they squander every opportunity of being young, on being young.” ...
Said slightly different, If we only knew then what we know now.
Yeah, that goes for most, even the wild people I had around me back then…
Spending ~4+ decades always wondering how shit works and then what is possible with that understanding makes it even harder to hang around with sheeple and order followers…
It is tough. Even with some whom I consider relatively intelligent. The art of critical thinking has all been decimated on main stream avenues.
Makes it even more important to connect here! :-)
💯 the timing of #nostr protocol, while I would have appreciated it at least pre-covid, I'm glad it's here now.
I literally had to self isolate during the shut down, not bc I was fearful of getting sick, but bc no one was interpreting the board moves as I was interpreting them. And that was becoming increasingly frustrating to me.
Yeah… Getting through it all while staying in Asia, well that was interesting, let’s leave it at that!
Without getting a motorbike & #Bitcoin it would have been hell