Oddbean new post about login | logout Holy Moly, I just started The Mandibles some days ago. It's becoming increasingly difficult to separate reality and fiction in my head. Feels like I'm living in the past, present and future at the same time. I'm not yet sure how to articulate a good question that arises from all this confusion but my best guess for an answer is: Bitcoin 😏 https://i.nostrimg.com/a131b72569137fd03a2ba9e83bfe7b8b2a9e29c4f308eeda1208e018936d28a6/file.png
once you finish it consider listening to my conversation with lionel shriver, the author: video: https://www.youtube.com/live/eGev5HrIfaQ?si=x9XpfaST-ApZwijw audio: https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/cd92-mandibles-with-lionel-shriver/
Mandibles. It’s happening.
I've just finished the book and the interview. To me, Lionel seems to suffer from an unbalanced diet of being extremely well informed about how the delicate systems that hold our world together can crash, while not having explored what is being done to build new instruments for better systems. As you said in the interview, Bitcoin is a tool among many which are being independently developed to strengthen the individual. I hope she comes around and ventures down the rabbithole a little, there are nuggets of hope everywhere to be found.
