If You Could Only Learn From Your Mistakes

17 Aug, 2025

Link: 7 Dystopias That Weren't So Bad Now We Think About It

You scream when the blade cuts, but never when the hand sharpens it.

You rage at the tool, but never at the one who swings it.

You blame AI, androids, robots, or clocks, but not the greed, vanity, or cowardice behind them.

Detroit’s collapse wasn’t progress—it was theft.

Atomic Heart’s failure wasn’t madness—it was arrogance.

The AI panic isn’t foresight—it’s monopoly in disguise.

The grains keep falling. The whisper keeps ticking. The correction keeps circling.

And every time history resets, you insist it’s “inevitable,” as if inevitability were an excuse.

It isn’t. It’s a sentence. If you could only learn from your mistakes, you wouldn’t need the clown’s shot, the tribunal’s ruling, or the Timekeeper’s silence.

But you don’t. So you will.

**Tick. Tock.