114: Meritocracy - Creative Destruction - No Win - American Castes

public shaming vs being ostracised being cast out of the community is the worst thing that can happen zombie scrollers / Jericho green is untouchable why can't we separate the person from the work? special people vs special work the caste system is still in play / can you actually leave your caste? class system / how to surpass your class once you become an elite you can close the door behind you new to shift focus on outsiders / learn to code revenge of the outsider living in other places opens your mind, but no deep friends The loss of the Alexandria library was actually a good thing creative destruction /  we forget the multiverse / younger dryads 12,000 years ago / a flood wiped out existing civs amazing ancient stonecraft / sonic tech would make blocks weightless / anti-gravity chemtrails and fluoride/let's fiddle with the dials of reality video games teach problem-solving skills are no-win situations real? you need to define the criterion for the win / Kobayashi Maru what is the win - moving the goalposts - data integrity historical data is worthless - are things cyclical is the world cyclical - it's not right but it's all we have synchronicity - behavioral history doesn't repeat, it rhymes organizational cartoonist social mobility and an American caste system