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"I am quite certain that neither love nor grief can ever be excessive; each is its own absolute measure, and knows its own proper proportions. And, as a rule, we generally fail to love or grieve nearly as much as we ought to do."
~David Bentley Hart
This is the galling contradiction in so much of the history of Christendom, with all its glories and all its atrocities, and probably explains its unique distinction as the one 'religious' civilization that destroyed itself from within, not only by abandoning its faith's inmost imperatives, but also by obeying them even when their rationales had been lost.
It may be the case that Christianity can create a civilization, but can never comfortably inhabit one. It is always instead establishing the conditions of its own exile, founding the Ur of the Chaldees from which it will eventually have to depart. Historically it has always been its own crisis, its own cataclysm. No sooner does the faith complete what it has built than the old familiar ache returns, because this enduring city is still not yet Christ, still not yet the Kingdom, even if the 'Christian Nationalist' or 'Integralist' insists on proclaiming ‘here it is’ or 'there it is'; this is just the old lie once again that obscures the truth that 'the Kingdom of God is inside of you' (Luke 17:21) and that it arrives on earth unheralded, always 'like a thief in the night' (Matthew 24:43-44; 1 Thessalonians 5:2).
This is why 'Christian' identitarians will always turn out to be heathens in the end. There is nothing intrinsically wrong in heathenism, of course; I am half a heathen myself on my better days; but, for Christians, if the original gospel is true at all, there is a love much higher than – and irreconcilable with – the love of blood and the will of the flesh.
~David Bentley Hart, "They Have Taken Away My Lord, and I Know Not Where They Have Laid Him"
I mean, it's hard to argue with this. My only quibble is that there is no "course correction" possible. Humanity is presently consumed by "social tech." This is only just begun, and will take many decades to wear off – only after the "cultural flattening" runs out of targets.
“Modern authentic group identity” necessarily comes from the internet now. Any given person below a certain age has more in common with their algorithmic fellow-travelers than their neighbors. Global flattening of material living standards and supply chains has only amplified the process, which contrary to some earlier thinkers wasn’t inevitable until social media framed it as an explicit goal (often via drawing on said thinkers, whose prophecies became self-fulfilling). But as things stand, the Nation as a regional phenomenon — to the extent it still even exists — will fully die without adapting. The only power to try so far, afaict, is China; compare the Douyin algorithm to TikTok in the US. They gladly push the latter in the opposite direction for us, and why shouldn’t they? Allowing this is a massive US own-goal, akin to the fentanyl crisis… but I digress. The future — without massive course-correction — is legacy state-apparatuses competing for extraction rights from delocalized people-group tributaries, enabled by AI (which amounts to a technical interface with Culture, requiring none of the labor or tact of yesterday’s “psyops”). 90s-00s kindergarten-globalism is a fairytale, the endpoint is eternal low-grade noetic war.
Vance sees only one cause behind every problem – "mass migration." He has a simplistic and historically illiterate outlook on the world, no doubt having at least something to do with his youth and lack of real-world experience.
(Trump, to his credit, is not like this.)
Thankfully, very few Americans shares this perspective.
Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.
I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.
I feel this.
Putting abstract ideas into words (even if only as part of an "inner monologue") means you're reifying these abstract things, making them less "pure" than they would otherwise be. Isn't it better to leave things unspoken in their unspoken form, rather than force them into the English language in order to deal with them? Not everything requires words in order to understand or engage with them *in your own head.*
Plotinus: "One must not suppose that the gods ... contemplate propositions, but all the forms we speak about are beautiful images in that world, of the kind that someone imagined to exist in the soul of the wise man, images not painted but real."
Good take 👇
a big take I've been noodling on and I’m ready to call:
the newsletter is dead
@every's core business is a newsletter with 120k+ subscribers so I don't say this lightly.
persistent agents mean i dont look at my inbox
with dots (GrokBots, Muse, etc) I almost never look at my inbox. if I do it's for a specific thing I need to reply to.
i think in a year I'll be doing all of my email this way - fully filtered by my dot / something like it.
this is not new: it's a continuation of the trend of having a “newsletter” folder in Gmail, but 10x more filtered.
what it means
It doesn’t mean people won't read newsletters, but it does mean that getting a person’s email is no longer the guarantee that you have a relationship with them that it used to.
luckily, with persistent agents (and AI coding more generally) there is an entirely new playing field to build relationships with readers. instead of fighting to get an email address, publishers and creators will need to make sure we're installed in our reader's agent harness of choice, so that they get directly notified when we do something new.
we're already starting to experiment with this @every with our MCP and the frontier alerts we send users of our slack agent (every.to/agent)
it's also more affordable than ever for publishers and creators to build their own platform ecosystem: you can have your own website, app etc. and you can use AI to publish 100x more high-quality stuff to your community—so we may see a world where many creators themselves are running their own little empires that have their own apps, feeds etc.
to be clear: It'll take a while before this actually happens, but the idea of getting someone's email creating a direct relationship with them is over.
here's a set of predictions I made 3 years ago about AI and media that panned out pretty well: every.to/chain-of-thought/we…
Five years of inflation. Everything about this economy works against young and low-income people.
Inflation is pernicious and evil – even more so when it's the intentional policy choice of the wealthy and asset-owners, who suffer less (even win) when the Treasury prints cash.
Consciousness is fundamental, not emergent from matter. The universe, God, and existence form one self-experiencing process. Evidence: quantum non-locality, the hard problem of consciousness, fine-tuning, and cross-cultural mystical reports of unity. Challenge: this may be untestable projection; physics succeeds without it. Humanity misses rigorous integration of first-person experience into science.
This is the biggest risk of AI – using it to make value judgments, as stand-ins for our conscience. Too many people don't the difference between a value judgment and a matter of fact.
My app @StampFansX has exploded over the past year. Hundreds of creators, thousands of subscribers. ARR well over $100K.
But our web traffic has remained totally flat, and might have even declined, during this time. What's going on with organic traffic these days? With SEO?
Higher quality of life causes lower birthrates.
The decision to "settle down" and start a family has significant opportunity cost. It's fun to be single and childless these days in ways it wasn't in the past.
For all the hype around prediction markets, I'm surprised at how quickly most people are to forgive forecasters who have been dead wrong, again and again, when deciding whether to take them seriously.
You'd expect that real money on the line would make us sharper judges of who's worth listening to, but track record hardly seems to matter to most people.
We seem to take predictions seriously based on how much we wanted to happen. Look at how often people flaunt polls from firms that have consistently missed bad in the past.
There's lots of money to be made in prediction markets, I think, for people who can avoid getting super emotional about all this stuff.
"The tracing of an unbroken line of descent from the protozoan to Plato does not in any way really explain Plato's consciousness." ~Theodore Roosevelt
Almost nobody will talk about AI in 30 years. Most people will have no idea what it is or where to "find" it.
2016: "I DO NOT GIVE FACEBOOK PERMISSION TO USE MY LIKENESS OR DATA"
2026: "Look what ChatGPT did with my grandkids' school photos 😍 Also I gave Claude all my bank statements and had it do my taxes!"
Nick Freiling retweeted
Interest payments on the debt have exceeded 3% of GDP only twice since 1940—in 1990 and today.
In 1990, Congress responded by passing a law to reduce the federal deficit by raising taxes and cutting health spending.
In 2026, Congress responded by doing as close to nothing as is possible and the only major fiscal plan on the table is to ADD $1 trillion in spending in a last-minute panic.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Important context needed: Trump previously promised 2 dividends and never followed through.
In early 2025, Trump publicly backed a roughly $5,000 “DOGE dividend”
In November 2025, he promised a $2,000 “tariff dividend”
newsweek.com/every-dividend…
My wife and I have five kids. $5,000 per adult equals $1,428 per mouth to feed. This plan literally makes me poorer than almost everyone else.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Important context needed: Trump previously promised 2 dividends and never followed through.
In early 2025, Trump publicly backed a roughly $5,000 “DOGE dividend”
In November 2025, he promised a $2,000 “tariff dividend”
newsweek.com/every-dividend…
Same here. I canceled ~$2K-worth of SaaS subscriptions last month. Lots of big SaaS will go under next year.
As I posted before, I've cancelled almost all of the SaaS subscriptions for my business
The only thing I still pay for as a business:
- AI inference
- Hetzner server hosting
- Cloudflare storage
- Backblaze backups
- Taxes
Now I started cancelling personal subscriptions too and just vibecoding my own versions or using Claude to take an open source project that does the same and then customize it for myself
All I still pay for personally is:
- Claude Code
- YouTube (content)
- Spotify (content)
- Starlink (internet)
- Phone eSIM
- Personal cloud storage
- Electricity and water (utility)
- Taxes
So if we summarize it for both, I only still pay for:
- AI inference
- Content
- Cloud storage & hosting
- Connectivity
- Electricity & water
- Taxes
So to summarize all my money now goes to:
- Content
- Data centers
- Power plants + water
- Governments
I think we'll be facing a tidal wave of cancellations once people find out how much money they can save
It's just how the economy works
