{"id":9997,"date":"2026-04-15T00:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=9997"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:11:00","slug":"out-of-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/04\/15\/out-of-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And it keeps getting worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows this; sees it clearly, feels it. <\/p>\n<p>And yet underneath there is a strong pull toward simultaneously believing in the decaying myth of Progress.<\/p>\n<p>The dissonant tension between the two is a big part of the Worse.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>The only real difference between us is that if I ask you <em>when<\/em> it started getting worse, you might give me a date in the last century or two. <\/p>\n<p>Whereas my own would be: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anarcho-primitivism\">Oh a lot longer ago than that<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But dammit, man, what about writing itself!?<\/p>\n<p>Yes. I know. Writing is a technology. Born of Civilization, and therefore necessarily tainted with the same Original Sin as all the rest (Agriculture, Granaries. Markets. My gas stove and gas guzzling pickup. The divine right of &#8216;kings&#8217;, or representative democracy or whatever as opposed to no-Rulers; anarchy). <\/p>\n<p>Sure. <\/p>\n<p>Granted. <\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s even worse with the AI, obviously. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m playing with the Devil&#8217;s own tools. <\/p>\n<p>But I tell you, and myself, that it&#8217;s for God&#8217;s own Purposes. That I say sooth regardless, in a poisoned ink. <\/p>\n<p>And I believe it: maybe I <em>need<\/em> to believe it to hold myself on this side of the Madness of the Mistake.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to indict me for being wrong, convict me as an addled philosophical criminal, that&#8217;s your best courtroom strategy right there. <\/p>\n<p>Good luck with that, and <\/p>\n<p>paradoxically<\/p>\n<p>I mean it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And it keeps getting worse.&#8221; Everyone knows this; sees it clearly, feels it. And yet underneath there is a strong pull toward simultaneously believing in the decaying myth of Progress. The dissonant tension between the two is a big part of the Worse. *** The only real difference between us is that if I ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9998,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997\/revisions\/9998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}