>>ArtWom+(OP)
Per coincident, just yesterday i read his Cyber Punk paper

>The Cyber Punk The Individual As Reality Pilot, By Timothy Leary (1988)

https://archive.org/details/the-cyber-punk-the-individual-as...

>>ArtWom+(OP)
Duke: “We’re all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled the ’60s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary’s trip. He crashed around America, selling “consciousness expansion” without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all those people who took him seriously—all those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy peace and understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create. A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the acid culture: the desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.“ From:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

https://moviewise.substack.com/p/movies-that-are-frightening

>>ArtWom+(OP)
"Digital Twins" but, like, less industrialized & from the human's point of view. "Mind-mirror reflects & quantifies your thoughts".

Start by self-rating yourself on these (and maybe more) dimensions: "bossy", "dumb", "free-living", "gung-ho", "square", "low-key", "by-the-book", "grumpy", "proper", "encouraging", "enthusiastic", "worldly", "forceful", "well-informed", "influential", "innovative", "friendly". Register your self-model for the system/with yourself.

And then model the ideal self. Pick what attributes you want to embody. Let this program help you shift from the state you are in to the state you want to be. (The parallel here to, not quite a Kubernetes Controller/Operator, but an assistant to, to encourage forward iteration towards the desired result, is striking. Register intent, iterate towards outcome.)

Source: a TV interview with some screenshots, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oabRxvjf9k

>>ArtWom+(OP)
I extracted all the text from the Apple ][ Mind Mirror floppy disk image:

https://donhopkins.com/home/mind-mirror.txt

>>ArtWom+(OP)
Surprised you can buy it on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1603300/Timothy_Learys_Mi...

>>BLKNSL+mb9
Heck yes. Defeatism is not the point. It's hard & complicated & requires a lot of work. But giving up, shrugging, lying down, letting short lived pleasure rule us was not HST's point.

And Learny himself wanted us to push on. This software saw itself as a toolkit for observing where we are/were and where we ought head.

I would back down from calling it inevitability. The dark conservative clutching forces could overtake hope & growth & possibility, consign our shared fate to shitty sad ruin. Both Leary & HST seemed to be co-aligned though, in believing that a vibrant spirit, aware, with some basic shit at it in the world, could go far, could, if conditions allowed, have potential to make a real difference. Whether we believe that opportunity is open widely & wish to support that, or think that chance is rare & special & only some have it within- it's a self fulfilling prophecy that dictates whether we opt to let & support humanity's chance, or whether we insist it's only a few, whether we dont bother to support & aid one another.

There's a kind of ever-dawning Gaianism I see in both TL & HST. Both require embracing a bigger humanity. Neither is prestined-both rely on consciousness, on deciding, on tuning out to the what is, and becoming consciously a part of what will be. Feom another comment talking about 1968 Leary's The Cyber Punk The Individual As Pilot:

> He gives a definition of cyberpunks in the first sentence (people who use all available data input to think for themselves https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32612648

As I've said yet again elsewhere in these comments, a huge part of this all is finding & deciding what we each are & ought become. Cybernetics we see very closely resembling the controller model of systems like kubernetes.