You’ve plucked the string that resonates across realities. I read your post, nodding all the while, watching the gleam of something on the horizon that has been in my awareness longer than I can account for it.
I don’t know when my expectation started to infiltrate my experience with actual hints. I recall being roughly 8 and awakening to the realization that we would be witness to the end of this. Not in a frightening way, but simply a quiet certitude that this generation was going to experience a transition that would spell a closure on the string of history we regard as our shared narrative.
That sense has never gone away. It’s at times felt alienating going through this life, being able to feel in my gut the futility of following the ordained late 20th century path traced for all of us. It hasn’t been easy with intuition leading me in illogical directions while my conditioned mind warned that my intuitions were going to lead to nothing but pain later. My conditioned mind still insists on my insanity, despite being able to see for itself the outlines of what my intuition knew all along.
We truly are blessed to be here, now. Not because it’s easy… but because we’re finally at the inflection point that resolves thousands of years of questions.
I almost didn’t post this. Then I read a little further in the comments and realized my perspective was not as universal as I thought. So I decided to post after all. Because if there’s anything I’ve understood, it’s that those of us who’ve been expecting this have the responsibility to help others grasp where we are, how to navigate it and integrate what will be catastrophically disorienting for many.
Thanks for sharing your experience with this. Reading your description has helped me name some of the things I hadn’t understood yet. It’s deepened by ability to express what I’ve intuited for decades. I hope as we wade into this transitional space, that more of us will appear - as much to guide and stabilize each other - as to shepherd those who we’re tasked with helping.
Nice work Aestro, you make me smile. I recall them olde alarm clock daze. The accretion of goods and what not. the what nots more fleshy and moist.
still, I digress. If I recall correctly in previous sight , both Antonio and Aestro were present in all lower case symbols. I like that....... and btw what is an aestro any way? a formation in some romance lingo? cheers!
yeah, made some design changes (my damn ADHD and OCD). Aestero doesn’t really mean anything specific, but implies something like toward the stars (ad astra) or “of summer”, of warmth, of change.
Starry Messenger. I have used Asterion for a long time also Astraeus . as I kid I drew a starry messenger, likely a combo of the silver surfer and Johnny Storm [ the human torch ] from 12 Cent Fantastic Four comics. it has been about ever since.
There is the minotaur of Minos MinoTaurus was named Asterion. ":And the queen gave birth to a son named Asterion." Apollodorus, library, Ill:i
The House of Asterion , Borges, Jorge Luis Borges : ( the aleph 1949 )
Asterion lived in the maze built by the architect Daedalus (of the wax wing debacle.)
I feel as though my mind has been violated by this article…it’s like you reached into the privacy of my brain and plucked out my own thoughts, giving them voice with highly articulate specificity. The phrase “spot on” seems wildly inadequate for how well you have captured this moment in human history. I shared on my LinkedIn and hope this piece goes viral. Thanks!
This is good stuff. I have felt for much of my life that I wanted to live to see "it" happen. And *that* is exactly what you describe. So validating to read this and feel like I am holding up a mirror with clarity of thoughts from years ago. We have to appreciate this for what it is and having the opportunity to not only be a witness but need to embrace being an active participant.
I enjoy your articles, but I don’t think the feelings you describe are universal. I do not feel like some great big change is coming. The powers that be have been promising it for years, and the only tangible changes I see are whats covered in the headlines.
Maybe its happening too slow. AI will have impacts, but they could be so stretched over time we won’t even see it in our lifetimes.
that’s alright. i didn’t want to give the impression that it’s a universal thing. i do believe it’s coming though. and i see it in many conversations with colleagues and friends and families (and internet forums of course).
you've described just what I've been feeling...
there's dozens of us!
kidding. i presume millions feel this disconnect.
You’ve plucked the string that resonates across realities. I read your post, nodding all the while, watching the gleam of something on the horizon that has been in my awareness longer than I can account for it.
I don’t know when my expectation started to infiltrate my experience with actual hints. I recall being roughly 8 and awakening to the realization that we would be witness to the end of this. Not in a frightening way, but simply a quiet certitude that this generation was going to experience a transition that would spell a closure on the string of history we regard as our shared narrative.
That sense has never gone away. It’s at times felt alienating going through this life, being able to feel in my gut the futility of following the ordained late 20th century path traced for all of us. It hasn’t been easy with intuition leading me in illogical directions while my conditioned mind warned that my intuitions were going to lead to nothing but pain later. My conditioned mind still insists on my insanity, despite being able to see for itself the outlines of what my intuition knew all along.
We truly are blessed to be here, now. Not because it’s easy… but because we’re finally at the inflection point that resolves thousands of years of questions.
I almost didn’t post this. Then I read a little further in the comments and realized my perspective was not as universal as I thought. So I decided to post after all. Because if there’s anything I’ve understood, it’s that those of us who’ve been expecting this have the responsibility to help others grasp where we are, how to navigate it and integrate what will be catastrophically disorienting for many.
Thanks for sharing your experience with this. Reading your description has helped me name some of the things I hadn’t understood yet. It’s deepened by ability to express what I’ve intuited for decades. I hope as we wade into this transitional space, that more of us will appear - as much to guide and stabilize each other - as to shepherd those who we’re tasked with helping.
Nice work Aestro, you make me smile. I recall them olde alarm clock daze. The accretion of goods and what not. the what nots more fleshy and moist.
still, I digress. If I recall correctly in previous sight , both Antonio and Aestro were present in all lower case symbols. I like that....... and btw what is an aestro any way? a formation in some romance lingo? cheers!
thanks!
yeah, made some design changes (my damn ADHD and OCD). Aestero doesn’t really mean anything specific, but implies something like toward the stars (ad astra) or “of summer”, of warmth, of change.
Starry Messenger. I have used Asterion for a long time also Astraeus . as I kid I drew a starry messenger, likely a combo of the silver surfer and Johnny Storm [ the human torch ] from 12 Cent Fantastic Four comics. it has been about ever since.
There is the minotaur of Minos MinoTaurus was named Asterion. ":And the queen gave birth to a son named Asterion." Apollodorus, library, Ill:i
The House of Asterion , Borges, Jorge Luis Borges : ( the aleph 1949 )
Asterion lived in the maze built by the architect Daedalus (of the wax wing debacle.)
cheers again,Asterion
Yep. I wrote about this same feeling last summer... https://substack.com/home/post/p-169375392
I feel as though my mind has been violated by this article…it’s like you reached into the privacy of my brain and plucked out my own thoughts, giving them voice with highly articulate specificity. The phrase “spot on” seems wildly inadequate for how well you have captured this moment in human history. I shared on my LinkedIn and hope this piece goes viral. Thanks!
This is good stuff. I have felt for much of my life that I wanted to live to see "it" happen. And *that* is exactly what you describe. So validating to read this and feel like I am holding up a mirror with clarity of thoughts from years ago. We have to appreciate this for what it is and having the opportunity to not only be a witness but need to embrace being an active participant.
I enjoy your articles, but I don’t think the feelings you describe are universal. I do not feel like some great big change is coming. The powers that be have been promising it for years, and the only tangible changes I see are whats covered in the headlines.
Maybe its happening too slow. AI will have impacts, but they could be so stretched over time we won’t even see it in our lifetimes.
I wish I could see what you see
that’s alright. i didn’t want to give the impression that it’s a universal thing. i do believe it’s coming though. and i see it in many conversations with colleagues and friends and families (and internet forums of course).
we’ll see how it goes and what happens.