Have you ever seen a meme blow up overnight? Often random, even nonsensical things, that go from their inception to the front page in a matter of days.
It's truly viral: an idea is like a virus, moving from server to server, site to site, host to host. Clever enough to infect the next person, or mundane enough to be lost in the chaos.
Memes have always been around; it used to take years, months, weeks, for trends to move through the population.
But the internet changed that: so much information, so much data, moving unbelievably fast from person to person. So many pictures and words and content, data and content, information and more information.
So much, you could never consume it all in a thousand lifetimes. And it just keeps growing and growing, faster every day.
Is there a limit? A breaking point?
If you look closely, you can already see shadows of it. Memes that go viral, meaningless things, only strong because their mere existence is so absurd that humans can't help but embrace them.
Almost as if there was some greater meme dying to break through.
Trends come and go, especially when there is no deeper rhyme or reason to the chaos. Most memes drown quickly in the vast ocean of information of the modern world.
Will there be an end to the cycle? Will there be a breakthrough? A disturbance in the waters?
Imagine the greatest possible meme. An idea, a symbol, that doesn't just thrive in the modern world, but shatters cycles of the world itself.
Something that can be ignored, but can't be avoided, an initiative so powerful that it changes the lives of not just those who embrace it, but the world itself.
Imagine.
A virus of thought which is a shadow of .
A piece of knowledge, a real thing, a symbol so unbelievably strong that it will challenge anything that stops humanity from pursuing our purest potential. A true revolution.
The modern world is strong, full of nonhuman entities, algorithms and ideas that beg for your attention and effort.
Progress and innovation only really move forward, the world growing more complex and intricate each day.
Nonhuman entities and systems aren't inherently good or bad. Most things are probably good: the creation of nonhuman structures is what allowed for the efficiency of production and governance that led to the comfort of modern life.
The Project knows that these things won't go away, not entirely. The toothpaste doesn't go back in the tube.
But the direction of progress can change.
When structures upon structures are layered together, woven to create the delicately balanced engine that modern society runs on, incentives can often be misaligned from humanity's best interests.
This is war: this is the Project.
When growth is fast, it can be strong, the slow and incremental rise of complexity: the building of buildings, the passing of laws, the evolution of culture.
Sometimes there are spectacular falls from progress: sometimes the libraries will erupt into flames.
But death is usually slow and boring; the Project doesn't expect an AI apocalypse, overnight societal collapse, or global armageddon.
So if humanity becomes frozen in decision, we will be left in the dust, and slowly fizzle out, as greater and stronger and more complex things take our place, faster and faster, until humanity is nothing more than a vessel carrying forth their complexity.
But this is war: humanity will not stand still.
It starts with the Project: it starts with you. You must change your direction, even if it is ever so slightly, aligning the execution of your faith to bring your world toward a human future.
You must embrace the meme, and carry it forward, showing it to those who do not yet see it.
It's not unheard of, not at all, in fact, it's only natural. There have always been revolutions.
It's been executed before, many times, when the meme is so strong that it is brought forth by those who see it onto those who don't. A real shift in alignment, a disturbance in the natural growth of things.
First it was the agricultural revolution, the division of labor to produce value out of nothing more than a change of delegation of efforts.
Then the birth of civilizations and governments, religions of conquest.
Next the windmills, the factories, the trains, the planes, and the telephones.
Each revolution is quicker than the last: the fruits of progress bring on the next age faster and faster.
It's not that things can only get better, there can be war: markets crash, bombs are dropped, the people riot.
Death is the only winner in war. But from the ashes, a better world is created.
As progress continues, the memes become more extreme, having to fight harder to survive, because things move smoothly: the present structures are so powerful, having survived each previous revolution.
But revolution still arises, not just because it is creative, and it is new, and it is strong, but because it is inevitable, each and every time.
After the industrial discoveries came the computers and the internet, the ability to truly surpass the capabilities of a human, in calculation and retention of information.
Finally the age of artificial intelligence. The age of excess and nonsense and algorithms. The blurring of what is real: a questioning of the human soul.
But there will be a next revolution.
We are approaching something … what is it?
What is it?
Do you see it?
Do you see the Revolution?