Dayton, Ohio, USA
October 25th, 2019
I am 65. I have studied climate and limits to growth all of my adult life.
I battled depression and severe allergies since my teenage years. This created social isolation so I never married and had a family. I retired early from my career as a technical illustrator in 2010, and began living in Florida every winter. This cured about 95 percent of my depression, but then I developed a bladder disorder, so my life still was overshadowed.
I started this blog after I had an amazing resurgence of health and energy following a very successful medical procedure on September 20th of this year. I was preparing to die, but now I know it is not time. I am finally, as a senior citizen, learning what it is like to wake up without either depression or chronic pain. Hey… better late than never!
Especially here in the US, assumptions about reality that persons like me always held have been toppled since Trump took control of the executive branch of government in 2017. But this was just a climax, exposing starkly that civilization collapse is not going to follow climate disruption, but is actually preceding it.
So many things that seemed likely a few years ago are now beyond likely, they are inevitable.
We are in shock, and still trying to get our bearings. We are trying to make sense of the present, so the deeper future is less on our minds.
I want there to be at least one blog that is dedicated to looking beyond all this present chaos, to looking at possibilities for future pockets of humanity that will exist after civilization collapses. If the human race goes extinct, all of this is futile, but if it does not, it is valuable.
I hope this blog, Transcendization, a unique discussion of the future, fills the void caused by the chaos of the present.
Transcendization 