Talk about quantum strangeness: This is becoming one crazy world!  I recall the world slowly advancing towards global integration and maybe even global consciousness. You know: the little blue marble ripping through our universe dragging its own version of world spacetime with it. Then suddenly. Poof. Something changed. 

I've been thinking a lot about this lately as I edit "The Edge of Madness" for Aignos Publishing, the avant garde imprint of Savant Books and Publications, and I think I've finally convinced myself it's not San Francisco, that place and time on the little blue marble existing in a sort of "liberal" alternate world of its own. That's not to say that the Bay Area hasn't changed. I was looking at a blue and red political map of California the other day (blue = Bernie Sanders; red = Joe Biden) and was shocked to see the lower Bay Area in red. Huh? Then it hit me: Technology in Silicon Valley has changed. It's no longer about innovation as much as it is about money now. Money. Joe Biden. Donald Trump. Business as usual, or perhaps more correctly "Same old, same old." Shock!

No, what's changed in the Bay Area is just a reflection of a much greater change that's been slowly growing over the last several years: It's a change from world integration to dis-integration. Not nationalism. Dis-integration at every governmental, societal and human level. Not necessarily increased competition, as some are saying, either. They're different, competition and dis-integration. The former can lead to either the later or, oddly, more integration and cooperation. Dis-integration about just dis-integration, whether it be on the big (responsibility for care of our little blue marble) or small (e.g. individual ethics). And I'm both disappointed emotionally and shocked morally at where it's leading us human inhabitants. Wasn't it our religious responsibility to protect and nurture our planet? Or do I have that somehow wrong, and it's our business responsibility to squeeze everything of value from our planet for immediate monetary gain? Is this a weird, generational reaction to dealing with mortality? 

I've begun wondering which is fastest approaching "the edge of madness," my newest work currently in editing, or contemporary humanity? 

Not strange enough? Then how about this: Recently, I read a scientific paper posted on arXiv.org, describing "quantum math" and its strange ability to quantitate the veracity of solutions to unsolvable problems. "Quantum Truth" I've dubbed it. So, I'd like to know if what I think humans are doing  to our sorry blue marble today is true, even if only Quantum True.