Diary: OK, then what?

[degringolade]

I don't really have a good sense of the way things are going to be going in the future. Granted that the trajectory of things a couple or four lifetimes past my expiration date seem pretty well set (at least in my humble opinion), the closer the predictions come to current events, the less certain my thoughts become.

Folks in this particular cul de sac of the net seem to be pretty much agreed that the end game is baked in. Beyond that though, the specious and premature arguments (including those of this humble correspondent) are really just coping mechanisms for the author(s). Shit is changing, and we have no clue which way it will go. So write away, bitch about the change, let it out. The society as a whole is moving away from your ideal. That doesn't mean that the movement is wrong, it is just the change.