
Sycophancy Is a Death Spiral – and America’s in It
When leaders demand total loyalty and surround themselves with flatterers, disaster follows. Every time. It’s not a question of if—it’s a question of when.

Proposal: musicto Collaborative Playlist Grant Initiative
We perceive Higher as a movement that rises above division, fear, and hate. If hate represents the lowest expression of humanity, then aiming higher is about choosing connection, empathy, and creativity.

In Scotland & Feeling Good
Writing for the Human Collective, this week's prompt: How Are You Feeling About Where You're At In Your Life?
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Sycophancy Is a Death Spiral – and America’s in It
When leaders demand total loyalty and surround themselves with flatterers, disaster follows. Every time. It’s not a question of if—it’s a question of when.

Proposal: musicto Collaborative Playlist Grant Initiative
We perceive Higher as a movement that rises above division, fear, and hate. If hate represents the lowest expression of humanity, then aiming higher is about choosing connection, empathy, and creativity.

In Scotland & Feeling Good
Writing for the Human Collective, this week's prompt: How Are You Feeling About Where You're At In Your Life?


I align with the reasoning behind Dark Forest theory and see it happening. I think the pendulum is going to shift in this direction and we have a long way to go before it shifts back - like years - if not decades.
While these smaller scenes are less corruptible - they do miss out on serving humanity as a whole in that - knowledge gets siloed.
There is likely going to be desire - and reward - for entities that can move additive knowledge from forest to forest. While this problem was initially solved by tech - tech can no longer be trusted.
Which opens the space for the role of Dark Forest Conduit
A Dark Forest Conduit's function is not to connect dark forests - that's dangerous - dark forests don't want to be seen - don't want their location shared or their knowledge identifiable - but to move knowledge from forest to forest in a clean and additive way.
Romantically it's kinda like Bards in the old days - moving from town to town - sharing stories through song and entertainment - while there was status for the bard in being able to hold the attention of an audience - there was net benefit to the town in that they had perspectives changed by the information - and also they just loved the entertainment.
This is a super nascent idea but I wanted to get it down today - will be coming back to it.
I align with the reasoning behind Dark Forest theory and see it happening. I think the pendulum is going to shift in this direction and we have a long way to go before it shifts back - like years - if not decades.
While these smaller scenes are less corruptible - they do miss out on serving humanity as a whole in that - knowledge gets siloed.
There is likely going to be desire - and reward - for entities that can move additive knowledge from forest to forest. While this problem was initially solved by tech - tech can no longer be trusted.
Which opens the space for the role of Dark Forest Conduit
A Dark Forest Conduit's function is not to connect dark forests - that's dangerous - dark forests don't want to be seen - don't want their location shared or their knowledge identifiable - but to move knowledge from forest to forest in a clean and additive way.
Romantically it's kinda like Bards in the old days - moving from town to town - sharing stories through song and entertainment - while there was status for the bard in being able to hold the attention of an audience - there was net benefit to the town in that they had perspectives changed by the information - and also they just loved the entertainment.
This is a super nascent idea but I wanted to get it down today - will be coming back to it.
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