The Floor Is Missing

Dedication to my new book in progress, “The Carpet is Moving Under You”

What you will find in this book is beautiful and worthy information. I trust this information will be of value.

The observation from the parallax identity is that the floor is missing, that the carpet is moving under us - as Bob Dylan wrote in “It's All Over Now Baby Blue”.

The reason the floor is missing and that the carpet is moving under us is up to us as human beings.

I am watching the people who are still thinking and speaking, and they are not doing well. The onrushing future offers them two costumes, doom and salvation, and neither fits a thinking person.

Did we ever believe the future could arrive without difficulties? The difficulty is not the verdict. It is the friction of arrival.

An electronic brain modeled after minds — did someone ever believe it would stay in a box? Containment was never plausible. The answer was never a stronger box. It is the floor: the thinking that decides what to build and what to ask of it.

Information is cheap now. Human skills — creativity, synthesis, directorship — are expensive, and they are becoming more so. The offloading is not the loss. It is the driver. Machines carrying the storage force the educational upgrade, and the upgrade reprices the human skills upward.

The republic was built with checks on power but no floor of education. That was the structural omission. The Socratic practice, democratized, is the missing floor. Not curriculum delivery — the practice of thinking.

The feed farms doom in both directions because dread keeps the eye moving. The instrument is neutral; the capture is in the incentive. The people still thinking are not failing. They are carrying weight with no ground under them, and the ground is the thing we know how to pour.

The trend is identifiable: exponential human evolution at scale, gearing up with exponential compute. Unforeseen events are always possible. The future is here whether we accept it or not. The floor is ours to build.

May the reader find the missing floor.