The Declaration of WTF

Published: July 5, 2018, 2:30 a.m.

b'First, or course, comes the Declaration of Independence\\n\\nThen we had the Declaration of Singularity\\n\\nThe came the Declaration of Amazing\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nBut maybe we\\u2019ve been doing our Declarations wrong. Are we putting the cart before the horse? The DoI announced the beginning of the United States as an entity, but it didn\\u2019t settle the matter. It took an ugly, bloody revolution to do that.\\n\\nMaybe what we need is a declaration of radical uncertainty--meaning that we don\\u2019t really know for sure what\\u2019s going on and that we can\\u2019t reliably say what\\u2019s going to happen next.\\n\\nLet\\u2019s not be too quick to rule things out. (We should think in terms of what is more and less likely,) There are many possible futures in play -- good and bad.\\xa0\\n\\nRisks: we don\\u2019t know for sure what we\\u2019re doing and there\\u2019s always unintended consequences.\\n\\nGreater risks: keep pretending we know what we\\u2019re doing and bring on disaster anyway. Or maybe just a mediocre future when we could have had an amazing one.\\n\\nWT 453-770\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\\n\\nImage from Pixabay.com'