Peter Bicknell Kellner

2/27/2022

Pope Francis didn't just preach mercy—he became it. Transfiguration isn’t always light on a mountaintop. Sometimes, it’s tenderness in the face of suffering. #PopeFrancis #MercyTransfigured

So next time you read a “consensus” account of past events, ask: who paid for the ink? Whose land underwrote the press? Your skepticism is the first defense.

Critics call it “bias,” I call it business strategy: control property, fund the outlets, set the agenda. History becomes a ledger of investments, not ideas.

@Patrick33493605 No one is forcing you to read the rant.

@aglobalvc Nice rant, ever concider writing a book and selling it on amazon, probably not because the literature your writing has already been published. Copy right laws and all.

Thought experiment. Haters, please don’t hate. Has humanity been tested without knowing it? Could the reason we haven’t joined an intergalactic federation be we haven’t evolved beyond war and nuclear weapons? Are divisions holding us back from next level of civilization? 🧵

@BachShakespeare Wow, keep going, wild, fascinating.

@aglobalvc The problem with this well-intended dream is that life itself is tautologically zero-sum in many critical ways, from the unicellular on up, and boundaries are critical every step of the way. Your vision would impute an undifferentiated Pangaea of contiguous protoplasm unevolved.

@TechnoViking600 Great point, I often ask the same question.

@aglobalvc But if their civilization was that advanced, I would think they would offer advice or solutions to assist us in getting to where we need to be.

Digital natives would return with the means to undo superficial habits, placing philosophy, humanism, and the will to understand at the heart of the digital age.

Imagine these timeless minds navigating tweets and TikToks, teaching us to slow down, to savor complexity, and reject superficiality. What values they’d restore!

Meanwhile, cohorts from prior centuries—who casually read War & Peace over weekends—are brought forward to transform today’s digital culture profoundly.

@JohnBick1960 John, we’re likely distant cousins. I’m a descendant of Zachariah —> John Bicknell of Weymouth, MA. Tried to find a way to message you privately but couldn’t. Bicknell is my middle name and my son’s.

What if the universe isn’t closed to us, but we are closed to it? The next step might not be technological—it might be psychological. Until we recognize that non-zero sum thinking is survival, we might never graduate to the stars.

If an intergalactic federation exists, why would they help a species that can’t help itself? If we were watching from afar, seeing a planet obsessed with borders, war, and scarcity instead of cooperation, would we make contact—or wait for them to outgrow it?