Marat Tyncher

But the value of Operation Mindfuck isn’t just the opportunity to exchange one delusion for another. It’s not about replacing the fantasy of a borderless world with that of a walled nation-state or that of a free-market jungle with communism, but seeing all of them as extreme, ideological endpoints. These are reality tunnels — perceptual limitations and conceptual frameworks, shaped by our experie…

Richard Watson: The dirty little secret here is that, most of the time, I’m not thinking or writing about the future at all. I’m using “the future” as an excuse to think deeply about what people are doing right now and to get others to question what they are doing and where they are going.

It’s important to note, though, that these stories, while useful, are not true. They are simplified models that we create to understand the world. Just because we have decided to establish a cause and an effect between a series of events doesn’t mean that these relationships concretely exist in the real world. In fact, most of them don’t — at least not in the way that we think.