2018: Against Worldbuilding Fight the Snob Art of the Social Climbers!
2018: Against Worldbuilding Fight The Snob Art of the Social Climbers! tinymixtapes.com/features/2018-against-worldbuilding By Nick James Scavo · December 13, 2018 Tweet Tech evangelist Robert Scoble taking a shower while wearing now-defunct Google Glass. We celebrate the end of the year the only way we know how: through lists, essays, and mixes. Join us as we explore the music that helped define the year. More from this series In 2018, do we laud our creations enough to call them worlds? As we turn the knob of a Breville BOV650XL toaster oven and scrape strawberry jam over the 1,000 nooks and crannies of an english muffin, are we vain enough to proclaim a new world? Our special individuality suggests that our world is made up of billions of particular worlds. Our bizarre social ingenuity demonstrates that there is a world-network that compartmentalizes, associates, and connects them. All the while, there is an infinite amount of quantum worlds swirling in microcosm beneath the starry sky of an equally infinite macrocosm. Within this reflected infinity, exactly which worlds did we build? Or are we merely at war with an existing world in an effort to proclaim a more profound one — one distinctly of our making? Must we devour the multiplicity of worlds to build even one solitary one? Are we worldeaters or worldbuilders? 1/19 We look up from our world, the planet Earth, and our curiosity bores into the expanse of non- living worlds circling around us. Yet, even our centuries of research and recent astronautics can’t seem to reveal a single discovery other than a plentitude of dead worlds.
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