[Caleb]

Following. I’ll be visiting Chile later this year, don’t have a strong grasp of the area and plan on doing some reading some before visiting.

[Caleb]

Caleb Ontiveros. I work in tech in the bay area – reach out if any of you are ever around here. Have a background in philosophy.

I’m broadly interested in philosophy, culture, and politics. Most recently have been thinking about classicism and futurism.

Don’t remember how I found Scholar’s Stage, perhaps via one of the excellent book lists.

[Caleb]

Here’s the start of a list of things one could bet on:

1. X will be cancelled in 5 years.
– For example: James Lindsay will be removed from youtube in 5 years.
2. CRT will become an encoded part of highschool education in n states
3. n% of the population will come out as transgender
4. Another leftwing protest movement will happen over the next five years and result in 2+ billion in damages
5. n police departments in democratic districts will be defunded
6. More students think it’s permissible to shout down a speaker, block others from an event, etc
– Fire has surveys like this
7. More employees are fired for woke reasons – compared w/ firings for other reasons
– There’s this database, but the quality seems poor and there are obvious reporting issues.
8. More professors are fired for woke reasons – compared w/ firings for other reasons
– There’s this database, but the quality seems poor
9. More corporate diversity & inclusion officers are hired
10. Fire’s free speech ratings generally trend down
11. Less mandatory SAT testing (Thanks Vingilótë)
12. Fewer honors courses offered

Of these, I expect 6, 9, 10, and 11 to trend in a woke direction.

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