Zohran Mamdani's Era

New York City enters a new era.

A. The Democratic Party candidate Zohran Mamdani has won his Mayor campaign for New York City.

B. United States former Vice President Dick Cheney has passed away aged 84. Earlier this week I wondered if he was still alive or not when thinking about the neoconservatives role in the George W. Bush administration’s Global War on Terror grand strategy.

C. Curtis Yarvin speaks on the end of history - and Slavoj Zizek speaks about Yarvin.

D. A 1972 documentary on Alvin Toffler’s futures studies / accelerated lifestyles book Future Shock.

E. Today’s MIT OCW free course is on The Anthropology of Politics: Persuasion and Power by Dr Xenia Cherkaev.

F. The United States is experiencing an invisible economic crisis of growing indebtedness for most people.

G. A 1958 interview by Mike Wallace with author and psychonaut Aldous Huxley.

H. Alvin Toffler (above) and the cyberpunk authors William Gibson and Neal Stephenson have all influenced why technology firms adopt new product ideas from dystopian science fiction.

I. Solar engineering is now a potential geopolitical / systemic risk. This is not news to readers of Neal Stephenson’s 2021 cyberpunk novel Termination Shock.