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The Event Horizon of History
On AI, Trump, gigadeath, and way too much content.
One death is a tragedy; a billion deaths are an origin story. For three-plus decades, the oligarchy’s been prepping for gigadeath: a theorized future global event causing a three-comma death toll [note: great metal band name]. They’re obsessed with it, even if they’re not telling you. They don’t want you to know, anyway. Then, you could stop it.
To brace for it, the uber-rich and public dignitaries they’ve bought have been gobbling up tracts of land in Alaska, Hawaii, Switzerland, and New Zealand. When they’re not fortifying their compounds, they’re sneaking around international waters, according to a set annual social calendar. May’s particularly lit: the Kentucky Derby, the Met Gala, Cannes, and F1 in Monaco. By month’s end, they’ll barely need to move their megayachts. You won’t see them; they definitely won’t see you.
My sweet summer child, unless your name’s in a history book, you don’t exist, except as part of a group: Gen Z, LGBTQIA+, APAC, EMEA, “the Black vote”. You’re not a person — you’re a dot on a scatterplot and part of a necessary evil. Capital requires a market. People are a market. A market requires labor. People are also labor. In a perfect world, labor is just AI. Then we could get rid of the people.
