"There is nothing new under the sun"
We once had a #CentralBankDigitalCurrency; the Inca's called it the Quipu. Their proto #CBDC system exacerbated the ills of centralization. It made state control easier, but it also hindered #innovation. It was also critically #fragile, as it created a sing point of #failure.
As such, it proved #unsustainable.
The current system is no more #Sustainable, and no less #fragile
The COP30 phased out language about "phasing out" all "fossil fuels"; here's to the return of scientific objectivity
The more we progress, the greater the risk of a devolution into a #DimAge Already, our own #technology is growing too complex for us to understand or manage, and scales up faster than our own understanding can keep up.
The struggle for Suwayda as the Stalingrad of the Arabs. It is about the future of the Levant & the economic independence of the Arabian peninsula, lest we see a return of Turkish supremacy. The Druze hold Stalingrad or the Arabs lose the Peninsula
