Welcome to the Smartocracy

where everyone knows enough to think they know everything

The big epidemic of this age is not Covid, or some other transmissible medical sickness, but rather, an epidemic of certainty. Soo many folks are just so 100% sure that they’re correct about everything.

All I know is I know nothing. Who would ever want to know it all, anyway? Imagine the pressure. Imagine the weight.

I may be wrong, but I’m never in doubt.
— Marshall McLuhan

Sometime ago in this thoroughly modern age, we learned the world was borne of quantum uncertainty. Life, it turns out, is just a random Card Sharks play.

With no solid basis for reality, we are now on a defensive adventure to narrow the scope of accepted truth. After all, we can control what we believe. And what we believe is always true.

Just maybe — maybe — if we have just enough information, we can program a life mode that eliminates uncertainty and risk. But even still, the cards have to turn over just right.