Jeff Bezos' Off-Planet Utopian Community

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This image is from a presentation Jeff Bezos did regarding off-planet travel through is space exploration platform, Blue Origin. It is a fascinating window into a titan industrialist’s worldview. To me it looks like The United States did in various stages from the early to late 20th century. This is a single human being with aspirations to travel off planet earth once we we have consumed and destroyed all her resources and create a circular community that looks exactly like the United States of America from 1930-1990. It’s hard for me to wrap my head around how wild and warped that is. It shows me the extent to which the human brain can change with access to an immeasurable amount of resources that you believe you created.

Lucien Smith's 2020 Vibe and Montauk, NY Space.

I liked his work when I lived in New York. He was in the Highland Orbit. It sounds like he has gone through a metamorphosis as he has gotten older. I am certainly in touch with that. I hope we all evolve and get better. It takes almost daily self analysis, meditation and a lot of help from your partner. My amazing partner helps me with this everyday. I love you, Leigh.

His space in Montauk is inspirational. Especially the space with two huge windows which, I assume, face the ocean. Surfboards resting on the outside. Inside all dedicated creation space. I think I organize things like he does. That’s why it makes sense to me. It makes me want to make shit. I’m grateful for that.

#44 - President Obama, 2009 - 2016

The Poetry of Campaigning and the Prose of Governance. I heard A.O.C. say this the other day. The first part is eloquent the second part is pragmatic and ripe for a lot more criticism, but the work was always there. Right now we could use both from the Obama years. Not only President Obama, but his team for each term. People who woke up everyday believing democracy was a vehicle to help people. That tough problems should be stared down, critically thought through and collectively solved.

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Thank you, Senator Sanders.

Thank you for pushing us where we need to go. We will keep pushing.

its absolutely fascinating that senator sanders ends his presidential campaign as the sun rises on the largest test of our institutions in modern history.

It saddens me when we treat american democracy like a rag doll on the highway in the rush hour traffic of american/globalist capitalism and then when we really need it we expect it to be there and magically work. in it’s purist form, democracy is a slow ideology. it takes so much time to build it, strengthen it and most importantly-trust it.

in terms of occam’s razor: it’s the fable of the three little pigs against the big bad wolf. what is our house made of? because straw and sticks don’t stand. only bricks do. senator sanders is a mason. he looks at hard truths and says the only way to build trust is to lay bricks. with all the partial action and apathy, with all the half truths, utter falsehoods and the cacophony of fucking noise- at the end of the day this shit just seems to be about good old fashioned right and wrong. that is what we are going to teach our kids. like senator sanders says, “it’s not about me its about us.” we will pick up the baton, senator. keep fighting.

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