No. 6 of 108
June 19 2025
Catastrophic failure took out the fourth Space X, undaunted in the theory of “rapid failure, rapid learning.” In May, the FAA approved twenty-five test launches, asserting no environmental harm to see here. Explosions continue, each followed by a call to intensify strikes, now straying into civilian territory. Countries evacuate citizens from Israel, who felt no reason to flee as Gaza flattened. Will the U.S. intervene again to topple, as it did in 1953? And today is Juneteenth, commemorating 130 years since the emancipation of enslaved people in Galveston, two years after the end of the Civil War. Some say we have already entered an undeclared civil war marked by all the emergency declarations. “Americans are going to die,” says the top (resigning) CDC vaccine expert.
The failure of many things is a thing in this time of collapse. And there are ways we humans accelerate the process. Rapid failure? Check. Rapid learning? Not so much. And, each failure has immediate impacts for humans, Mother Earth, and the many beings. We cannot hold failure back with our fingers. We don’t have to accelerate failure. And we must, must accelerate how and what we learn.
