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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" 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est&#233;n yendo bien. Las ruinas de Europa son algunas de las m&#225;s interesantes, solo comparables con el antiguo Egipto, sus pir&#225;mides, templos y jerogl&#237;ficos. Londres en particular, y Par&#237;s, son tesoros que esconden m&#250;ltiples secretos bajo la ret&#237;cula urbana de lo que alguna vez fueron las dos ciudades m&#225;s importantes del continente, cuya rivalidad nunca fue superada m&#225;s que por el declive que pos&#243; su permanente sombra apagando su esplendor y luminosidad; son la Pompeya y Herculano de nuestro tiempo. Es una l&#225;stima que el encanto de acuarela que se siente al ver imponentes edificios del pasado envueltos en enredaderas, sea en realidad la penumbra que escapa de ojos vidriosos y apagados, est&#225;ticos y vac&#237;os. Pero la enfermedad del ciclo civilizatorio, tal y como la artritis reumatoide que le llega a tantos en la vejez, tambi&#233;n invadi&#243; esas culturas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ten cuidado cuando te desplaces por las calles que a&#250;n est&#225;n habitadas. Evita los callejones cerrados y aseg&#250;rate de ir con un int&#233;rprete para que siempre est&#233;s al tanto de la situaci&#243;n y no te enga&#241;en, porque lo &#250;nico en ruinas no es la estructura f&#237;sica, sino la moral, y en esos casos el instinto de supervivencia reemplaza toda forma de decencia cuando se trata de fuere&#241;os y extranjeros, a quienes se ve como una oportunidad para extraer alg&#250;n beneficio pasajero.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Con respecto a tus pregunta, es dif&#237;cil saber en estos momentos cu&#225;les fueron las causas de la ca&#237;da de la civilizaci&#243;n europea, especialmente la de las islas brit&#225;nicas, porque la mayor&#237;a de los archivos relacionados con el periodo que inicia el tercer milenio estaban contenidos en medios cuya longevidad era muy inferior, a diferencia de la piedra, el papel o el pergamino. Podr&#237;a contarte historias &#8220;detalladas&#8221; de la <em>Edad Media</em> y de hasta finales del siglo XX, pero la paulatina degradaci&#243;n de los sustratos de almacenamiento que vinieron luego, hacen imposible la reconstrucci&#243;n del pasado en esa etapa. Sin embargo, podemos reconstituir una imagen aproxim&#225;ndonos por el siglo XVIII y terminando en los grandes dep&#243;sitos de basura que se encuentran por todo el mundo, y que son de gran tama&#241;o y extensi&#243;n en ese continente. Sabemos con certeza por la poca cantidad de papel, despu&#233;s de ciertas fechas, que por ejemplo, las personas dejaron de leer alrededor del a&#241;o 2007, y que una forma de comunicaci&#243;n simb&#243;lica basada en m&#250;ltiples caras con gestos y diversos objetos asociados, reemplaz&#243; en gran medida la palabra escrita con caracteres alfab&#233;ticos y letras como los que estoy usando para esta carta; nosotros practicamos la lectura y la escritura, ya ca&#237;das en desuso.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dos d&#233;cadas despu&#233;s, alrededor del a&#241;o 2030, las personas fueron perdiendo la capacidad de interacci&#243;n con otros individuos y la sociedad comenz&#243; un proceso de declive demogr&#225;fico que ya tra&#237;a una tendencia negativa desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Eso lo conocemos porque hay registros escritos espor&#225;dicos de algunos acad&#233;micos y sabios de la &#233;poca que consignaron sus observaciones en libros de papel, porque la mayor parte de la producci&#243;n se desplaz&#243; a lo que conocemos como libros electr&#243;nicos, una tecnolog&#237;a perdida hace m&#225;s de 400 a&#241;os.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Luego de desvanecerse las capacidades de lectura y de interacci&#243;n, el declive demogr&#225;fico se intensific&#243; de tal manera que grandes &#225;reas de la ciencia y la tecnolog&#237;a desaparecieron por falta de nuevos practicantes, y por eso debo escribirte en este costoso papel de algod&#243;n, puesto que para los mensajes electr&#243;nicos que eran posibles al inicio del milenio, ya no contamos con la tecnolog&#237;a; los centros de distribuci&#243;n de la misma son ahora reliquias de museo que algunos, err&#243;neamente, atribuyen a extraterrestres, ya que no imaginan posible que seres humanos hace apenas unos cuantos siglos pudieran comprender tan sofisticados mecanismos y sistemas. La gran pandemia del 2073 termin&#243; de acabar con los pocos talleres en los que se practicaban algunas de estas artes, y se reparaban y manten&#237;an esas tecnolog&#237;as, pero no estamos seguros si esa fue la causa &#250;ltima del desplome.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Algunos autores que han hecho investigaci&#243;n de textos m&#233;dicos y filos&#243;ficos europeos de los siglos XVIII, XIX y XX, han aventurado algunas hip&#243;tesis sobre las causas estructurales del declive y la decadencia de Europa, que ahora se parece mucho a las ruinas Incas del Per&#250;, rodeadas de misterio y meteorizadas por el tiempo. De todas esas hip&#243;tesis hay una que me convence m&#225;s que las dem&#225;s &#8211;aunque no por ello creo que est&#233; libre de vac&#237;os enormes&#8211; y es la siguiente: al parecer, en el siglo XV se da una revoluci&#243;n cient&#237;fica y art&#237;stica que se extiende hasta el siglo XVI, y se conoce como <em>el Renacimiento</em>; en ella, se producen grandes obras de arte y hay una proliferaci&#243;n de ideas que conducen luego a un periodo conocido como <em>la Ilustraci&#243;n</em>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">De ambos tenemos muy pocas pruebas, porque los museos de Europa que albergaban las obras de arte del <em>Renacimiento</em> fueron sistem&#225;ticamente saqueados y sus obras condenadas como herej&#237;a, y en Francia, esa enorme campi&#241;a con cicatrices imborrables de la historia, las bibliotecas fueron arrasadas por grandes incendios; en algunos casos, provocados, en otros, espont&#225;neos porque no hab&#237;a nadie para cuidar de los edificios y los documentos que conten&#237;an. No obstante, tenemos una imagen muy tr&#225;gica de la <em>Ilustraci&#243;n</em>, con unos periodos llenos de violencia, guerras y traumas, debido a las luchas de poder que sucedieron, mas nunca podremos saber si los rumores sobre la debacle civilizatoria de ese pa&#237;s durante el siglo XVIII, es cierta o no, y por los rastros que todav&#237;a quedan, no se puede asegurar de forma concluyente.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Del siglo XIX sabemos que fue de expansi&#243;n. La cultura europea estuvo presente en casi todos los rincones del globo, pero despu&#233;s del inicio del siglo XX su influencia se encoge hasta convertirse en nota de pie de p&#225;gina y curiosidad, de nuevo, no sabemos mucho, excepto por algunos textos de historiadores que relatan guerras fant&#225;sticas, con ej&#233;rcitos gigantescos acompa&#241;ados de m&#225;quinas capaces de arrasar ciudades enteras y bolas de fuego que, arrojadas por artefactos voladores, destruyeron ciudades enteras; aunque igual que Homero con la <em>Guerra de Troya</em>, la cual nunca sabremos si fue cierta, dichas guerras son un mito, quiz&#225; m&#225;s una met&#225;fora del pasado turbulento en el que ebullen las ideas y se crean los nuevos hombres. Sin embargo, a pesar de todo esto, si asumimos la grandiosidad del <em>Renacimiento</em>, la irracionalidad de la <em>Ilustraci&#243;n francesa</em>, las grandes guerras mecanizadas del siglo XX y la tecnolog&#237;a que precedi&#243; a nuestro periodo de oscuridad actual, podr&#237;amos decir que los hombres de dicha &#233;poca fueron perdiendo la raz&#243;n, se ensimismaron y, como en el mito griego, se enamoraron de su imagen hasta ahogarse en la fantas&#237;a. Creemos que sus mentes se disociaron completamente y esto conllev&#243; una lenta, pero segura, disoluci&#243;n de los finos v&#237;nculos que conforman una sociedad, primero a nivel individual. Las ciudades se hicieron m&#225;s grandes y m&#225;s compartimentadas, encogiendo al individuo hasta convertirlo en un animal diminuto de esos que puedes ver con tu microscopio &#243;ptico. Occidente regres&#243; a la sopa primordial, no sin antes, dejarnos el esqueleto de su mente en estas ruinas que t&#250; ahora estudias con tanta curiosidad e inter&#233;s; empero, tal y como el registro f&#243;sil de los seres vivos de hace millones de a&#241;os no pueden hablarnos porque la informaci&#243;n ha sido reemplazada por una forma p&#233;trea inanimada, el cuerpo que una vez fue es ahora su propia tumba con epitafios mudos.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lamento no poder ser de m&#225;s ayuda. Aqu&#237;, en estas monta&#241;as aisladas, no contamos con la capacidad para traducir los documentos de los que disponemos. Nuestros anaqueles est&#225;n llenos de libros en idiomas con s&#237;mbolos cuyos hablantes se extinguieron, y la criptograf&#237;a toma tiempo; ojal&#225; cont&#225;ramos con una m&#237;tica <em>piedra de Rosetta</em>, porque los diccionarios de traducci&#243;n se trasladaron a formatos contenidos y manejados por esas reliquias de museo que ya te mencion&#233;.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Espero que te vaya muy bien. No se te olvide que debes tomar el velero de regreso en seis meses si quieres evitar los huracanes del Caribe: la navegaci&#243;n no es muy confiable y puedes terminar a cientos de kil&#243;metros de tu destino, adem&#225;s de que los relojes mec&#225;nicos no son tan precisos como los antiguos electr&#243;nicos que se reg&#237;an por las estrellas artificiales que, en otra &#233;poca distante del pasado, logr&#225;bamos colocar sobre nuestras cabezas en el firmamento.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tu padre que te quiere.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">P.D: Tu madre me pide que te diga por favor le traigas alg&#250;n recuerdo de Par&#237;s o Londres. Aunque yo le insisto que all&#225; ya no hay nada que valga la pena, posiblemente un viejo lienzo de los que sobrevivieron de alg&#250;n museo para que lo colguemos aqu&#237; &#8211;a lo mejor y resulta que es un artilugio con valor hist&#243;rico&#8211;. En la zona donde se ubicaba el <em>Museo del Louvre</em>, que no te debe quedar lejos de las excavaciones, parece que hay un mercadillo donde los saqueadores venden lo que encuentran bajo las ruinas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;German Contreras&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:119022951,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7dbccd4-4c54-464b-9992-d576625717a8_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;3909fcbd-154d-4452-b4b8-c0f17968612b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span></h4><p></p><div><hr></div><h6>Este art&#237;culo apareci&#243; por primera vez en nuestro medio aliado <strong><a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Felbastioncya.com%2F2023%2F03%2Fhistoria-del-pasado-futuro%2F">El Basti&#243;n</a></strong>.</h6><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><h4><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">Content in search of a new framework, an active principle in search of a new excipient.</span></h4><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input 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its variants; this is about a process that has previously occurred many times in history. Religions change, mutate,  and the aesthetics of the rites adopt new forms or vanish; the image of God, sometimes takes the form of animals, sometimes looks like men.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">What is actually important is the content, because the framework wears out, gets tired and sometimes it only follows fads. Think of religion as a library, the books remain, but after centuries, the building needs more than a simple repair, it needs to be replaced; and in that transit, from the old building to the new building, the people in charge lose some books, burn the documents they think are no longer useful, a complete renovation takes place, and even some members of the old guard file their retirement documents, leaving some room for the new guys, that in many cases have not even been born yet.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">The New Building Is Not The Old Cathedral</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong><span data-color="#1155cc" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">C</span></strong><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">hristianism</span></em><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">, emphasis on the </span><em><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">&#8220;ism&#8221;</span></em><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">, is going through that phase, the ideological framework is tired, the main variants: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant, look like they can&#8217;t find answers to produce an effective response to their main competitor: Scientism, that in turn is already failing strepitously when interrogated about its limits and assumptions, especially its catastrophic attempt and pretension to replace not only Christianism, but other religions and religious beliefs around the world, with a very poorly conceived materialism as an answer for our symbolic needs; notice that I don&#8217;t use the word metaphysical, because the problem, I think, is not theological, is not about a new cover for the old book or rephrasing what has been discussed </span><em><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">ad nauseam</span></em><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">, is not about the great beyond, heaven, paradise or hell, or talking to St. Peter at the pearly gates, or any other image of that sort.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">The issue is that religion, specifically Christianism, failed the test of science, but science, in turn, failed the test of religion. Both concepts collided at the end of the Black Plague; cynicism, skepticism and mutual distrust gave way to a world without dialogue, where both parties have fought against each other, many times through proxies in universities, governments and with weapons in innumerable battlefields. There have been moments of truce, but the distrust has never gone away; it lingers like the nasty stench of a furtive fart at a state dinner, where everybody must laugh while reaching for the dagger to defend their honor, should the other side dare to levy an accusation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">Christianism did not survive science, the ideological framework is for a world where people don&#8217;t know and understand what fire is; and whose unfortunate response to try to solve the issues of the disillusion with the ideological shortcomings, was to attack science with straight lies told by the priests and the church&#8212;Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant&#8212; justifying their behavior, stating that it was for the greater good; while science, on the other hand, tried fill the gap, by reducing reality to a pile of material achievements forming the forbidden mountain that nobody, even the priests in lab coats guarding it, were authorized to question.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">The Hallmark of Failure</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-color="#1155cc" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">B</span></strong><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">ut what about the revival and the young cohorts going back to church on Sundays, and praying, and the millions filling up stadiums to listen to some mega-church pastor? I have a very simple answer: Demographics. If there is one telling indicator that the framework has failed is this, because the entire world, not only the Western culture, but even sub-Saharan Africa, is going to be reduced to pre-industrial levels of population. Christianity&#8217;s framework will shatter, this time is not going to be a simple schism, fruit of some power struggle inside the ecclesiastical structures, followed by a grand and solemn statement; this time, the job and the task to compile a new code is going to be titanic, because we are going to have to integrate two apparently incompatible elements.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">Those that try an ideological emulsion; mixing one substance with the other, attempting to surround the microdroplets of the Christian myth with science, will fail, it already backfired spectacularly; and those that try the opposite will also fail, because the symbol, the Christian symbol will corrupt and suffocate the scientific spirit as it has done before during the Dark Ages, turning it into a lobotomized servant of the elite priesthood.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">The New Framework</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-color="#1155cc" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">I</span></strong><span data-color="#741b47" style="color: rgb(116, 27, 71);">t must not fall into the gnostic trap, into the inverse of the opposites, in an attempt to create a new substance out of raw materials whose intrinsic characteristics are not well understood by the charlatans peddling mystical cures. Science and religion are to be mixed in a way similar to salt, made by two elements that by themselves are very toxic for human beings, but when combined, form an essential molecule for our bodies and minds. This new framework is a task for the post-demographic collapse generation and for those individuals capable of understanding that a myth is as real and fundamental for our physical well-being as is reason as a tool to transcend ignorance and foolishness to elevate our souls.</span></p><p></p><h4><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;German Contreras&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:119022951,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7dbccd4-4c54-464b-9992-d576625717a8_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;d522500c-35ad-472f-99f4-d712178868ca&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </h4><h4></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d131464a-0309-4ea9-8d5c-3de63e539545&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:112.09143,&quot;downloadable&quot;:true,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p><strong><span data-color="#0b5394" style="color: rgb(11, 83, 148);">M</span></strong><span data-color="#0b5394" style="color: rgb(11, 83, 148);">ary, Susan and Barbara, kept coming back to the old factory gate where they used to meet with their boyfriends, later husbands before the war, the factory is now closed, it produced stampings, but was later converted to produce munitions during the war. Their husbands died fighting in Europe and Japan, none came back, they were never found, MIA as they say. </span></p><p><span data-color="#0b5394" style="color: rgb(11, 83, 148);">They received a pension and spend their days talking to each other, they are neighbors, their houses form a triangle, with Barbara&#8216;s  house across from Mary&#8216;s , on the same sidewalk, two houses down the street from Susan&#180;s. They dress up and meet at the gate, and wait, they never talk or pray, they just stand in there, under the rusty gate, between sundown and the stars. </span></p><p><span data-color="#0b5394" style="color: rgb(11, 83, 148);">After that, they cross the street, sit at the diner, have coffee and a snack, talk and then go home. They do this from Monday to Friday, each week and on Christmas eve, they break with the tradition and hug each other under the gate, before going back home. They never married again, never had children. </span></p><p><span data-color="#0b5394" style="color: rgb(11, 83, 148);">Barbara has a brother who dated Susan for a while, but then he got promoted and moved to a different city, where he found somebody else. Mary has never even tried again. All the people in town know there are the widows of the heroes, and they are respected; the war left scars everywhere, their husbands were not the only men that never came back, so nobody in town says anything about their behavior, for the people, is just a way to cope with a silent chronic pain that can&#8216;t  find relief.   </span></p><p><span data-color="#0b5394" style="color: rgb(11, 83, 148);">The first to pass away was Susan, she was forty, then Mary and then Barbara, they never said anything to anyone outside of their other two friends about their experience, nobody knew exactly why they stood at the gate for so many years, three at first, then two, and then one until they vanished. </span></p><p></p><h4>by <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;German Contreras&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:119022951,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7dbccd4-4c54-464b-9992-d576625717a8_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;33ae4b50-dd3d-4cc3-b58f-83ec39a75d38&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </h4><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Entidad Pol&#237;tica Sin Futuro</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">De todas las fuerzas a las que una sociedad se puede resistir, el destino demogr&#225;fico es quiz&#225; la &#250;nica inevitable, y para Colombia, que en la actualidad presenta una tasa de fertilidad menor a la de Jap&#243;n y acelerandose hacia el fondo, el resultado est&#225; cantado.</span></p><p></p><h4><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">El Escenario</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Hace unos dias, en una entrevista para el </span><em><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Hoover Institution</span></em><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"> de la Universidad de Stanford, en California, Estados Unidos; el dem&#243;grafo espa&#241;ol Jes&#250;s Fern&#225;ndez-Villaverde<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>, acad&#233;mico de la Universidad de Pensilvania; cont&#243; como los pa&#237;ses de ingresos medios y bajos, estaban presentando una tasa muy baja de fertilidad y que adem&#225;s se estaba acelerando. En el art&#237;culo acad&#233;mico </span><em><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Terra Incognita: La econom&#237;a de un mundo cada vez m&#225;s peque&#241;o</span></em><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>, junto con Patrick Norrick<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-3" target="_self">3</a>, estudiante de primer a&#241;o de doctorado en la Universidad del Noroeste, hacen un an&#225;lisis y muestran las cifras de fertilidad para muchos paises y hablan de las posibles causas. De todas estas, me llam&#243; la atenci&#243;n el caso de Colombia, en donde esta ha bajado un 35% en los &#250;ltimos 10 a&#241;os<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-4" target="_self">4</a>, llegando a estar por debajo de la de Jap&#243;n, actualmente en 1.14<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-5" target="_self">5</a>, que junto con Corea del Sur en un 0.80<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-6" target="_self">6</a>, son quiz&#225; los casos mejor conocidos del fen&#243;meno de la caida de la natalidad. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Colombia, seg&#250;n los datos recolectados por Fernandez-Villaverde y Norrick, est&#225; en una tasa 1.01 hijos por mujer<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-7" target="_self">7</a>, de modo que la poblaci&#243;n proyectada a 90 a&#241;os (3 generaciones) es la siguente, incluyendo el momentum, es decir la inercia poblacional<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-8" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-8" target="_self">8</a>. Para una poblaci&#243;n actual reportada por el DANE, de 53.399.171 habitantes<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-9" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-9" target="_self">9</a>, la serie es as&#237;:</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><div class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHO-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58adbb7b-24b9-4c05-ad37-dedeb1f59ee5_815x221.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHO-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58adbb7b-24b9-4c05-ad37-dedeb1f59ee5_815x221.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHO-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58adbb7b-24b9-4c05-ad37-dedeb1f59ee5_815x221.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHO-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58adbb7b-24b9-4c05-ad37-dedeb1f59ee5_815x221.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw"><img src="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21iHO-%21%2Cw_1456%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F58adbb7b-24b9-4c05-ad37-dedeb1f59ee5_815x221.png" width="815" height="221" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/58adbb7b-24b9-4c05-ad37-dedeb1f59ee5_815x221.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:221,&quot;width&quot;:815,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:21847,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/i/216272425?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891ec053-fd0f-45cf-a527-e8ca1489bd7d_850x320.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHO-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58adbb7b-24b9-4c05-ad37-dedeb1f59ee5_815x221.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHO-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58adbb7b-24b9-4c05-ad37-dedeb1f59ee5_815x221.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHO-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58adbb7b-24b9-4c05-ad37-dedeb1f59ee5_815x221.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iHO-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58adbb7b-24b9-4c05-ad37-dedeb1f59ee5_815x221.png 1456w" sizes="auto, 100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></div></figure></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Estos n&#250;meros, corresponden al escenario en el que la TTF permanece constante, pero como hemos visto en los ultimos 10 a&#241;os, puede reducirse aun m&#225;s, haciendo estas proyecciones un poco optimistas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Las implicaciones son de todo tipo, las m&#225;s inmediatas tienen que ver con pensiones y servicios sociales, el SISBEN, subsidios, etc. Pero tambien son de seguridad y la que me parece m&#225;s interesante, la integridad territorial. Digo la m&#225;s interesante, porque </span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">mi apreciaci&#243;n y opini&#243;n general sobre el proyecto republicano de Colombia, es que ha sido un absoluto fracaso; las aspiraciones de desarrollo resultaron pura fantas&#237;a, debido a los medios disponibles dentro del marco institucional, y cada vez que se les hizo una revisi&#243;n, las cosas empeoraron, como en 1886 y 1991.</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Puede que haya carreteras, hospitales e infraestructura, pero al mismo tiempo, esos servicios y sus sistemas complementarios solo los disfruta un reducido n&#250;mero de privilegiados a expensas de los dem&#225;s, que aunque obligados a contribuir, ya sea prestando servicio militar o pagando el IVA en cada cosa que compran -si tienen con que comprar- no reciben ni de lejos el bien b&#225;sico que debe estar disponible PARA TODOS en cualquier sociedad desarrollada y civilizada: Tranquilidad y libertad para crear una vida sin intromisiones o violencia de parte del estado. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Con la poblaci&#243;n de Colombia en proceso de envejecimiento, se van a dar varios fen&#243;menos, uno de ellos es que el ejercito se va a reducir desproporcionadamente con respecto al total de la poblaci&#243;n</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">, simplemente porque la estructura de edad no se va a corresponder con la rigidez de la pir&#225;mide de edades que demanda una estructura militar. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Actualmente, las </span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Fuerzas Militares (FF.MM) de Colombia, cuentan con un total aproximado de alrededor de 181.000 miembros (2025)</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-10" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-10" target="_self">10</a>, en funci&#243;n de la siguiente estructura en la pir&#225;mide demogr&#225;fica: </span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21IWp2%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F644815e0-4c50-45fc-8659-a02c430625be_900x700.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">La conclusi&#243;n no es muy dificil: si con la actual cantidad de miembros de las FF.MM tenemos problemas para cubrir el territorio de Colombia, cuando seamos una cuarta parte de la poblaci&#243;n va a ser aun m&#225;s complejo, y si a eso le sumamos, una poblaci&#243;n envejecida, la defensa simplemente se hace imposible, esto, si asumimos que la TTF permanece constante, pero creo que se va a reducir.  </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Lo anterior, es solo un peque&#241;o aspecto de la inmensa cantidad de problemas que se le vienen encima a Colombia, todos ellos relacionados con un sistema inflexible que no permite ninguna adaptaci&#243;n en tiempo real, aunque sea para buscar soluciones de ultimo momento. Pero lo m&#225;s pat&#233;tico de todo este asunto, es que desperdiciamos todo el siglo XX en las peleas m&#225;s improductivas posibles, porque al final la discusi&#243;n sobre la propiedad de la tierra se va a solucionar en favor de la reconcentraci&#243;n, por herencia, abandono o compra, y la infraestructura que nunca se complent&#243; ahi quedar&#225; en proyecto, pero m&#225;s problem&#225;tico aun, va a ser cuando los servicios b&#225;sicos se queden sin financiaci&#243;n, e igual que las FF.MM y la polic&#237;a, sin personal para operarlos.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Qu&#233; va a ser de los acueductos veredales, o de las grandes hidroel&#233;ctricas? Algunos piensan, de manera ingenua, que la reducci&#243;n de la poblacion va a reconcentrar la riqueza, y que la gente que hoy no consume esos servicios de forma directa o indirecta, va a subsanar la demanda por caida en la poblaci&#243;n con aumento per c&#225;pita, pero si algo hemos visto en Colombia, es que el mal cr&#243;nico de la pobreza solo va a empeorar, es mi opini&#243;n, y si a algun genio, se le ocurre profundizar la soluci&#243;n de la redistribuci&#243;n, le tengo que mencionar, que la caida de la natalidad fue aun m&#225;s profunda en los pa&#237;ses socialistas, como detallan Fern&#225;ndez-Villaverde y Norrick en el art&#237;culo acad&#233;mico citado. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Qu&#233; Hacer y C&#243;mo Prepararse?</span></h4><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Idealmente, hay que abrir la econom&#237;a y reestructurar administrativamente, pasar de una rep&#250;blica unitaria a un pa&#237;s confederado, asi como empezar desde ya, la creaci&#243;n de la milicia Colombiana, sin descuidar las Fuerzas Mililtares como n&#250;cleo de las especialidades y operacion de armamento m&#225;s complejo, pero eso es pensar con el deseo, y es mejor poner los pies en la tierra, en la de uno, porque eso va a hacer mucha falta. </span></strong></p></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Asi como en tiempos de la caida del Imperio Romano, que se da con la abolici&#243;n formal del t&#237;tulo de emperador, all&#225; por el siglo V, e.c; porque los servicios del estado central ya habian decaido, la abolici&#243;n formal de la Rep&#250;blica de Colombia, llegar&#225; cuando la ausencia pr&#225;ctica del estado colombiano, abandone los peque&#241;os centros urbanos y continue con los m&#225;s grandes; situaci&#243;n que no es extra&#241;a, desde siempre en casi todo el territorio del pa&#237;s. A los que estamos cerca de las ciudades nos tocar&#225; formar unidades administrativas locales con poderes que ahora solo estan reservados para el estado central. </span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Justicia penal y defensa, van a ser los primeros. El problema serio, es que en Colombia, ni siquiera en el estado central estas dos facultades se desarrollaron con verdadero sentido de justicia e igualdad, y siempre han sido claramente parcializadas de forma descarada en favor de las &#233;lites en el poder, caracter&#237;stica de la que han tomado nota bandidos y criminales que aspiran a sustituir el estado en las regiones aplicando los mismos criterios de exclusi&#243;n.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">En el aspecto comercial,</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"> al menos, habr&#225; que mantener las carreteras locales y los accesos a los rios, si los hay, asi como cuidarse de proteger las fuentes de energ&#237;a y los canales de abastecimiento. Antioquia tiene puerto, carb&#243;n e hidroel&#233;ctricas. Con respecto a las comunicaciones, pues hoy en d&#237;a existe internet satelital, pero hay que seguir pag&#225;ndolo, asi que de alguna forma, tener fondos en el extranjero y mantener una cuenta abierta afuera para poder acceder a muchos de los productos, va a ser cr&#237;tico. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">El aspecto monetario</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"> es una gran incognita, porque con el Dollar americano debilit&#225;ndose por los d&#233;ficits del estado federal, es muy arriesgado proponerlo como dep&#243;sito seguro de valor en el largo plazo, pero Antioquia y en general Colombia, tienen  oro, platino y otros metales que pueden intercambiarse por productos y tecnolog&#237;a, lo malo es que como siempre, las &#233;lites se interponen en su explotaci&#243;n, transformaci&#243;n y comercializaci&#243;n. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">La integridad territorial de Colombia, no va a ser mejor que la actual, quiz&#225; Antioquia sea libre y soberana una vez m&#225;s, simplemente porque no haya con que pagar un gran ej&#233;rcito que reprima una declaraci&#243;n unilateral de independencia. No ser&#225; ma&#241;ana, o la semana que viene, pero dado que ahora el departamento esta conectado con el mar, a diferencia de los inicios del siglo XX, darle la espalda a Bogot&#225; no va a ser tan traum&#225;tico, aunque personalmente no quisiera que fuera asi, a pesar de la distancia cultural con los habitantes del altiplano y sus ideas sobre administraci&#243;n p&#250;blica, que tanto da&#241;o le han hecho al proyecto republicano colombiano. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">En el peor de los casos, el ente pol&#237;tico se disuelve y las l&#237;neas fronterizas aparecen de forma natural, a veces como accidente geogr&#225;fico, a veces por diferencias culturales, pero nunca estan ausentes. Colombia, como proyecto, est&#225; comandada por personas incapaces de reflexionar y por una poblaci&#243;n convencida de mentiras de las que no puede escapar a suficiente velocidad como para corregir el rumbo y dar el giro hacia un modelo, que quiz&#225; no nos salve del declive demogr&#225;fico, pero si lo haga m&#225;s llevadero y nos prepare para la siguiente etapa, por el contrario, creo que se nos viene una epoca traum&#225;tica y llena de conflictos internos, m&#225;s peleas pol&#237;ticas y de frustraciones basadas en propaganda y falsedades acumuladas durante el siglo XX, las cuales nunca supimos procesar, y que nos van a costar el pa&#237;s y quiz&#225; el territorio entero, que puede llegar a ser tomado por los modernos </span><em><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Pueblos del Mar</span></em><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">, como sucedi&#243; durante el colapso de la Edad de Bronce en el mediterraneo, que por falta de comercio, produjo una involuci&#243;n cultural hacia los institntos m&#225;s b&#225;sicos que empujan a los hombres a buscar en otras tierras, lo que no pueden encontrar en la suya propia, esta vez, no en Egipto, sino en Suram&#233;rica, en donde existen todo tipo de recursos, con estados d&#233;biles y poblaciones envejecidas y f&#225;ciles de conquistar. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"> </span></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;German Contreras&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:119022951,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7dbccd4-4c54-464b-9992-d576625717a8_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;d0657f74-dd73-4646-ab87-7e5b6df7f238&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Miembro fundador del movimiento por la independencia de Antioquia: </span><a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fantioquialibreysoberana.org%2F"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Antioquia Libre y Soberana. </span></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Jes&#250;s Fern&#225;ndez-Villaverde</span></strong></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Jes&#250;s Fern&#225;ndez-Villaverde es el Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics en la University of Pennsylvania. Tambi&#233;n se desempe&#241;a como Director de la Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets y Co-Director del Business, Economic, and Financial History Project (en la Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation). Es Research Associate del National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Research Affiliate del Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Nonresident Senior Fellow del American Enterprise Institute (AEI) y miembro de otras redes de investigaci&#243;n.</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Sus principales &#225;reas de investigaci&#243;n son la macroeconom&#237;a, la econom&#237;a computacional (incluyendo m&#233;todos de aprendizaje autom&#225;tico para resolver y estimar modelos de equilibrio din&#225;mico), la econometr&#237;a, la historia econ&#243;mica, el cambio demogr&#225;fico, la econom&#237;a monetaria y la historia a largo plazo del crecimiento econ&#243;mico.</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Obtuvo un Ph.D. en Econom&#237;a por la University of Minnesota (2001) y un B.Sc. en Econom&#237;a y Gesti&#243;n junto con un LL.B. por el ICADE en Madrid, Espa&#241;a (mediados de los a&#241;os 90). Naci&#243; en Madrid a principios de los a&#241;os 70 y ha estado en Penn desde 2001 (con roles anteriores o de visitante en lugares como Duke, NYU, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Oxford y varios bancos de la Reserva Federal). Es Fellow de la Econometric Society (2020) y ha recibido otros premios, como el Barry Prize (2026).</span></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Fern&#225;ndez-Villaverde, J., &amp; Norrick, P. (2026). Terra incognita: The economics of a shrinking world (PIER Working Paper 26-016). Penn Institute for Economic Research. </span><a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Feconomics.sas.upenn.edu%2Fsystem%2Ffiles%2Fworking-papers%2F26-016%2520PIER%2520Paper%2520Submission.pdf"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/system/files/working-papers/26-016%20PIER%20Paper%20Submission.pdf  </span></a></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Patrick Norrick</span></strong></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Patrick Norrick es un estudiante de primer a&#241;o del programa de Ph.D. en Econom&#237;a en Northwestern University, con un enfoque de investigaci&#243;n en macroeconom&#237;a. Su correo electr&#243;nico universitario es </span><a href="iframe.php?url=mailto%3Apatricknorrick2032%40u.northwestern.edu"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">patricknorrick2032@u.northwestern.edu</span></a><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">.</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Tambi&#233;n est&#225; afiliado al American Enterprise Institute como Research Demographics &amp; Political Economy Associate (y ha figurado como asistente de investigaci&#243;n trabajando con Nicholas Eberstadt en temas demogr&#225;ficos). Ha coautorado o contribuido a trabajos sobre demograf&#237;a, incluyendo piezas relacionadas con el declive poblacional y la demograf&#237;a de Asia Oriental.</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Antes de los estudios de posgrado, complet&#243; sus estudios de pregrado en Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), donde obtuvo una doble especializaci&#243;n en econom&#237;a y matem&#225;ticas. Compiti&#243; en cross country y atletismo (eventos de fondo) como atleta universitario (clase de ~2022), procedente del &#225;rea de Wilmette/Winnetka, Illinois (New Trier High School).</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Los detalles biogr&#225;ficos p&#250;blicos m&#225;s all&#225; de sus afiliaciones acad&#233;micas y en el AEI siguen siendo limitados, lo cual es coherente con su etapa temprana de carrera.</span></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">&#8220;Esto no significa que la compensaci&#243;n haya dejado de funcionar.</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">M&#225;s bien, ninguna calibraci&#243;n plausible explica una ca&#237;da del 35 % en la natalidad en diez a&#241;os, como en Colombia, &#250;nicamente a trav&#233;s de ese canal&#8221;. </span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Fern&#225;ndez-Villaverde, J., &amp; Norrick, P. (2026). Terra incognita: The economics of a shrinking world (PIER Working Paper 26-016). Penn Institute for Economic Research. </span><a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Feconomics.sas.upenn.edu%2Fsystem%2Ffiles%2Fworking-papers%2F26-016%2520PIER%2520Paper%2520Submission.pdf"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/system/files/working-papers/26-016%20PIER%20Paper%20Submission.pdf  </span></a></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Japan&#8217;s 2025 total fertility rate (1.14):</span></strong></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. (2026). </span><em><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Vital statistics of Japan: Preliminary data for 2025</span></em><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">. https://www.mhlw.go.jp/</span></p><p><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Alternative (citing a reliable secondary report of the official data):</span></strong></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Nippon.com. (2026, June 9). </span><em><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Baby decline: Births in Japan drop for the tenth successive year</span></em><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">. </span><a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nippon.com%2Fen%2Fjapan-data%2Fh02802%2F"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02802/</span></a></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Statistics Korea. (2026). Birth statistics in 2025. Ministry of Data and Statistics. https://kostat.go.kr/ (or the specific press release URL: https://mods.go.kr/)</span></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">&#8220;M&#233;xico y T&#250;nez no son casos aislados. En 2025, Tailandia se situ&#243; en 0,87, Colombia en 1,01, Ir&#225;n en 1,35 y Brasil en 1,52, todos ellos con un ingreso per c&#225;pita muy inferior al de Estados Unidos&#8221;. </span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Fern&#225;ndez-Villaverde, J., &amp; Norrick, P. (2026). Terra incognita: The economics of a shrinking world (PIER Working Paper 26-016). Penn Institute for Economic Research. </span><a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Feconomics.sas.upenn.edu%2Fsystem%2Ffiles%2Fworking-papers%2F26-016%2520PIER%2520Paper%2520Submission.pdf"><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/system/files/working-papers/26-016%20PIER%20Paper%20Submission.pdf  </span></a></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-8" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-anchor-8" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">8</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Modelo generacional simple a largo plazo (TFR constante = 1,01)</span></strong></p><h3><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">F&#243;rmula principal</span></h3><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Con una tasa global de fecundidad constante de 1,01, la </span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">tasa neta de reproducci&#243;n (NRR)</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"> es aproximadamente </span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">0,48&#8211;0,50</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"> (alrededor de media hija por mujer, despu&#233;s de ajustar por la raz&#243;n de sexos al nacer &#8776; 1,05 y una mortalidad moderada).</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Un modelo discreto por generaciones asume que cada generaci&#243;n dura </span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">G &#8776; 30 a&#241;os</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"> (longitud media de generaci&#243;n):</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Pt+G&#8776;Pt&#215;NRRP_{t+G} \approx P_t \times \text{NRR}Pt+G&#8203;&#8776;Pt&#8203;&#215;NRR</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">o, de forma m&#225;s general, despu&#233;s de nnn generaciones:</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Pt+nG&#8776;Pt&#215;(NRR)nP_{t + nG} \approx P_t \times (\text{NRR})^nPt+nG&#8203;&#8776;Pt&#8203;&#215;(NRR)n</span></p><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">donde:</span></p><ul><li><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">PtP_tPt&#8203; = poblaci&#243;n inicial</span></p></li><li><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">NRR &#8776; 0,49 (punto medio de 0,48&#8211;0,50)</span></p></li><li><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">GGG = 30 a&#241;os</span></p></li></ul><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Esta f&#243;rmula describe la </span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">tendencia asint&#243;tica a largo plazo</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"> una vez que se disipa el momentum poblacional. En el corto y mediano plazo, el momentum (cohortes grandes de mujeres en edad f&#233;rtil) frena el descenso, por lo que la poblaci&#243;n cae m&#225;s lentamente que la simple multiplicaci&#243;n generacional al principio.</span></p><h3><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Punto de partida</span></h3><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Poblaci&#243;n actual de Colombia (mediados de 2026): </span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">&#8776; 53,8 millones</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">.</span></p><h3><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Poblaciones proyectadas (ajuste m&#225;s realista por momentum)</span></h3><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Horizonte temporalA&#241;os a partir de ahoraGeneraciones (nnn)Poblaci&#243;n proyectada (ajuste por momentum)30 a&#241;os~20561</span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">&#8776; 45&#8211;50 millones</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">60 a&#241;os~20862</span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">&#8776; 25&#8211;30 millones</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">90 a&#241;os~21163</span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">&#8776; 12&#8211;15 millones</span></strong></p><h3><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Aclaraciones importantes</span></h3><ul><li><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">La f&#243;rmula pura P&#215;(0,49)nP \times (0,49)^nP&#215;(0,49)n representa la tendencia matem&#225;tica a largo plazo una vez que la estructura por edades se estabiliza bajo el r&#233;gimen de baja fecundidad.</span></p></li><li><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Las cifras del cuadro anterior incorporan el </span><strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">momentum poblacional</span></strong><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"> (la estructura actual de edades retrasa el descenso en las primeras d&#233;cadas).</span></p></li><li><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Las proyecciones reales tambi&#233;n dependen de la migraci&#243;n, la evoluci&#243;n futura de la mortalidad y de cualquier recuperaci&#243;n (o nueva ca&#237;da) de la fecundidad.</span></p></li><li><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Las proyecciones oficiales de la ONU y el DANE (variante media) asumen una fecundidad m&#225;s alta y, por tanto, muestran poblaciones mucho mayores.</span></p></li></ul><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Este es un modelo transparente y aproximado que ilustra el poderoso efecto a largo plazo de mantener una TFR cercana a 1,0.</span></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-9" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-anchor-9" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">9</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estad&#237;stica. (2025). Proyecciones de poblaci&#243;n de Colombia 2018-2070 (actualizaci&#243;n post-COVID-19). https://www.dane.gov.co/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/proyecciones-de-poblacion</span></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-10" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%23footnote-anchor-10" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">10</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><span data-color="#134f5c" style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);">Presidencia de la Rep&#250;blica de Colombia. (2025, 9 de julio). Fortalecimiento de las Fuerzas Militares [Publicaci&#243;n en X]. https://x.com/infopresidencia</span></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distributed Systems Full Series]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New Order of The World. 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Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h4 style="text-align: justify;">...y 100 luchando contra quienes no dejan construir el pa&#237;s. </h4><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hace unos d&#237;as, Julio C&#233;sar Iglesias entrevist&#243; a Eduardo Pizarro Leong&#243;mez, hermano del asesinado Carlos Pizarro Leong&#243;mez, l&#237;der de la guerrilla M-19; y lo que parec&#237;a iba a ser una entrevista m&#225;s, llena de lugares comunes y argumentos trillados, result&#243; siendo una gran sorpresa, con admisiones similares a las que se vio obliada a hacer la Asamblea Nacional de Cuba hace unos meses, cuando finalmente tuvieron que aceptar en p&#250;blico lo que ya se sab&#237;a en privado desde hace d&#233;cadas: <strong>que el socialismo no funciona</strong>. En el caso de Eduardo Pizarro, las revelaciones fueron espec&#237;ficas sobre la izquierda colombiana y la lucha guerrillera, reconociendo que la fundaci&#243;n ideol&#243;gica es errada, y que la guerrilla no solo no puede llegar al poder por las armas, sino que las razones por las cuales lo han intentado, son falacias que no se sostienen ante la evidencia emp&#237;rica, dejando sin piso toda la argumentaci&#243;n con la que han sometido al pa&#237;s a d&#233;cadas de violencia y tragedias, en su intento por forzar a la sociedad colombiana a aceptar un modelo, que desde el principio, estaba completamente equivocado.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FJRPhdX7wdvA">Pizarro admiti&#243; y habl&#243; en la entrevista de los siguientes cinco aspectos principales</a>: </strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><h4>1. Rechazo a las &#8220;causas objetivas&#8221; de la violencia.</h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Durante d&#233;cadas, la guerrilla y por supuesto, la izquierda, han sostenido que el origen del conflicto es la desigualdad, y que mientras esta no se acabe, no habr&#225; paz. Pues sobre este punto, Pizarro admite que el problema no es la desigualdad y que, si as&#237; fuera, pa&#237;ses como Suiza, donde las diferencias entre los que m&#225;s tienen y los que menos tienen son enormes, estarian en guerra. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Por supuesto, lo que no explica este se&#241;or es que la obsesi&#243;n que tiene la izquierda con la imposici&#243;n de la igualdad, es precisamente una de las causas de la violencia; es decir, la izquierda nunca ha entendido o aceptado que forzar a los dem&#225;s a ser iguales requiere precisamente una enorme cantidad de coerci&#243;n, como sucedi&#243; en el caso de Camboya y los Jemeres Rojos, Vietnam o la misma Cuba, donde el aparato de represi&#243;n ha sumido en la igualdad de la miseria a los cubanos desde 1959, cuando Fidel entr&#243; en La Habana, eso si, los Castro y sus amigos si disfrutan de los privilegios que le niegan a otros.</p><h4>2. La guerrilla no tiene posibilidades de llegar al poder por las armas</h4><p style="text-align: justify;">En este punto, finalmente admite lo que se sabe hace tiempo: que, por m&#225;s que lo intente, la guerrilla no tiene c&#243;mo ocupar el territorio, cosa que el gobierno de Colombia tampoco ha querido hacer, por la raz&#243;n que sea.</p><h4>3. La presencia de la guerrilla y sus acciones han causado m&#225;s atraso y pobreza</h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La presencia y accionar de la guerrilla espantan la inversi&#243;n y previenen la formaci&#243;n de capital; esencial para aumentar la productividad, el valor agregado y, como consecuencia, los salarios y su poder adquisitivo</strong>, circumstancia que golpea especialmente duro a las zonas rurales, donde los colombianos no pueden salir de la pobreza.</p><h4>4. Lo que queda en el monte son se&#241;ores de la guerra.</h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Hay que admitir una cosa: que si el nefasto proceso de paz de Santos con las FARC nos dej&#243; algo, fue el haber eliminado oficialmente a ese grupo, y que lo que queda en el monte, son delincuentes escondidos dentro de un cascar&#243;n ideol&#243;gico vac&#237;o y sin contenido alguno; esa es la base argumental que hay que usar para combatir a las &#8220;guerrillas&#8221;, ahora completamente desprovistas de cualquier barniz pol&#237;tico, que quedan expuestas como lo que son y siempre han sido: crimen organizado.</p><h4>5. Y finalmente, RECHAZA LA VIOLENCIA DE AMBOS LADOS COMO MALA, acabando con la t&#233;sis del finado ex-magistrado Carlos Gaviria D&#237;az.</h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Esta t&#233;sis bastante est&#250;pida y peligrosa se puede observar en un intercambio que tuvieron en p&#250;blico, hace much&#237;simos a&#241;os, el ex-magistrado y el ex-comisionado de paz de aquel entonces, Luis Carlos Restrepo. En ese intercambio, se puede oir claramente de qu&#233; lado estaba Carlos Gaviria. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Eduardo Pizarro ya puede decir en p&#250;blico lo que ya sabemos hace a&#241;os, y es que crimen organizado es crimen organizado, sin distinci&#243;n ideol&#243;gica, y que <strong>no hay que darle tratamiento preferencial a unos sobre otros, porque ambos son malos, </strong>celdas, uniformes y carceles en medio de un proceso penal respetuoso de las garant&#237;as jur&#237;dicas o bolsas y fosas comunes, si se resisten a la aplicacion de la ley, as&#237; se combate el crimen. </p><p></p><h4>Conclusiones:</h4><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">No porque Eduardo Pizarro, de alguna manera, sea el vocero de una izquierda vergonzante e incapaz de admitir sus errores en p&#250;blico, el problema estructural del subdesarrollo de Colombia desaparece, porque la pelea que ha dado origen a todas estas estrategias erradas sigue viva y sus actores todav&#237;a est&#225;n convencidos de sus argumentos. En esta ocasi&#243;n, los socialistas de estado, es decir, la otra izquierda; vencen ideol&#243;gicamente a los Internacional-Socialistas: guerrilla y partidos simpatizantes; sin embargo, ello no los convierte autom&#225;ticamente en la facci&#243;n que est&#225; en lo correcto. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">En el ensayo <a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2Fp%2Fensayo-libertarismo-o-promesas-y%3Fr%3D1yv2p3%26amp%3Butm_campaign%3Dpost-expanded-share%26amp%3Butm_medium%3Dweb">Libertarismo o Promesas y Guerras</a>, publicado en este blog, se detalla muy bien la estructura y origen de dicho conflicto, sus v&#237;ctimas y las estrategias con las que cada lado ha intentado mantenerse o llegar al poder, pero basta con decir que, por m&#225;s de 150 a&#241;os, <strong>la lucha y la guerra, ha sido entre los que no dejan construir y los que quieren destruir</strong>, cada uno con sus intelectuales y razones, pero ambos completamente equivocados, y cuyo resultado ha sido el estado fallido, atrasado y subdesarrollado que ahora va a entrar en declive demogr&#225;fico, sin haber llegado nunca a un nivel de riqueza que nos permita superar el per&#237;odo de paulatina contracci&#243;n econ&#243;mica, que se avecina despu&#233;s del a&#241;o 2045.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ambos lados ahora se preparan para proponer opciones de &#8220;centro&#8221;, &#191;Pero centro de qu&#233;?, si ambos est&#225;n completamente equivocados en su concepci&#243;n del sistema pol&#237;tico y la estructuraci&#243;n administrativa de un pa&#237;s, donde hay m&#225;s de 25 asesinatos por cada 100.000 habitantes, donde la pobreza es del 70% y a los ciudadanos se les divide en castas que eufemisticamente llamamos &#8220;estratos&#8221;, esa abominaci&#243;n del buenismo que ha formalizado la discriminaci&#243;n social por d&#233;cadas. Colombia es un pa&#237;s donde los salarios no alcanzan para nada y se persigue al empresario, en donde, a m&#225;s de 200 a&#241;os de vida &#8220;republicana&#8221;, Leticia y otras capitales no tienen carretera para comunicarse con el resto del pa&#237;s, en un error estrat&#233;gico que crea un problema de seguiridad nacional, que es obvio hasta para el m&#225;s mediocre de los analistas en defensa. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Encuentro absolutamente esencial y necesario para que el pa&#237;s pueda avanzar, lo que Eduardo Pizarro hizo al aceptar p&#250;blicamente todos esos errores, porque me da tranquilidad y nos produce una mayor certeza, de que lo que hemos estado promoviendo en <strong><a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fantioquialibreysoberana.org%2F">Antioquia Libre y Soberana</a></strong> todos estos a&#241;os, es lo correcto: que la opci&#243;n federal, que se hizo fracasar en el siglo XIX, la misma que llev&#243; a la Argentina de Alberdi a la riqueza y la paz, es la opci&#243;n adecuada contra el centralismo asfixiante de las &#233;lites gobernantes, que hoy en d&#237;a son un popurr&#237; de &#233;lites regionales que han tenido que descender sobre la capital para luchar por su tajada de poder, descuidando aun m&#225;s las regiones y concentr&#225;ndolo todav&#237;a m&#225;s. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Por &#250;ltimo,  Pizarro hace una admisi&#243;n m&#225;s t&#225;cita que expl&#237;cita en la entrevista, y es que reconoce que los sistemas distribuidos son superiores a los sistemas concentrados, es decir, a la planeaci&#243;n central, algo que se hizo patente con la caida del Muro de Berl&#237;n y el final de la Uni&#243;n  Sovi&#233;tica, de la que parece que &#250;nicamente hasta ahora, se enteran nuestros intelecutales criollos, a pesar de ser hechos p&#250;blicos y bien documentados que ocurrieron hace mas de tr&#233;s d&#233;cadas!   </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Nos queda un largo camino por delante, pero uno de los dos obst&#225;culos m&#225;s grandes se est&#225; deshaciendo; ahora la tarea, es combatir con argumentos y firmeza a la nobleza criolla que se piensa con derecho sobre la vida, libertad y propiedad de los que creemos en el proyecto republicano y la igualdad ante la ley, la libertad y la libre empresa, dentro de marcos legales e institucionales ajustados a las preferencias, cultura y costumbres locales, sin perder la coherencia de una unidad territorial que quiz&#225; se deshaga al final del siglo, por falta de gente y de un acto de contrici&#243;n, debido al nivel de arrogancia y pedanter&#237;a del que solo son capaces los se&#241;oritos de la capital, y de algunos que proclaman a Cristo Rey, pero no aman a los dem&#225;s, como &#233;l los ha amado.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p>Por: </p><h3>German Contreras</h3><p>@flemigdriller </p><p>Miembro Fundador de Antioquia Libre y Soberana</p><p>Dos Pa&#237;ses, Una Naci&#243;n</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;3880e634-9aef-40b1-a252-fee2dc76dc8e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:268.01633,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>When the Soviet Union collapsed, the former countries didn&#8217;t turn into capitalist paradises instantly; in fact, just a few adopted pro-market and pro-individual freedoms structures, among them the Czech Republic and Poland. Besides some celebrations and optimism, the same dull gray cities and fed-up faces remained, while in some cases citizens watched impotently how the old communists took over under a new set of rules. Russia, on December the 26th 1991&#8212;a day later after the formal dissolution of the USSR&#8212;was pretty much the same, although with the evil beast dead and the carcass out in the open, its bleached bones are still very much part of the landscape and legacy of a failed political project.</p><p>Thirty-five years later, the USSR is a curiosity for an entire generation of adults that were born after the fall, and have lived among the ruins of such a grandiose idea, but suffer the consequences of the very persistent social institutions comprising the soul of the now physically extinct beast. An ex-KGB agent is the president and the same Soviet kleptocracy and corruption still roams and lives in every public institution.</p><p>Russians may have well-supplied supermarkets, with lots of products and access to internet, but the old ways are still alive, something, I&#8217;m afraid, is going to happen in the West after the end and collapse of the Progressive Century institutions. The same way Romans forgot they had lost the empire and kept pretending, we in the West don&#8217;t want to let go the memory of a century and an ideological project that, very much like the Soviet Union, gave sense and purpose to the Western culture. We could adopt the same posture the Russians have and live in a permanent fantasy&#8212;the most likely scenario&#8212;or let the new technologies develop a new civilization based on a dynamic set of rules faithful to the foundational principles, but I doubt that will happen, because the ossification is very advanced, we are putting a lot of effort in freezing that glorious past to avoid the new future.</p><p>Most people don&#8217;t seem to realize we are touring the Jurassic Park of politics, full of creatures that must not be revived or fed, because they could escape again as it happened in Russia. The populist movements know the problems, they can point accurately what is wrong, but they can never provide the solutions; that is their main weakness.</p><p>The idea that America was great is good for a political slogan, but is, in my opinion, a huge fundamental mistake, although it doesn&#8217;t surprise me at all that people riding the trough of the wave can&#8217;t see the immense ocean ahead or the infinite stars in the firmament, because to them reality is a very small circle above when seen from the bottom of a funnel formed by turbulent waters. America is not great because of what it was at a certain point in the past, but for what it is permanently: the greatest political project in human history, with the unique capacity to renew and adapt itself like no other, thanks to a system based on limited government, freedom and liberty, and the inbuilt Judeo-Christian idea of renewal seated at its core: a new day, a new week, and changing seasons bring new opportunities; the idea that if a mistake is not catastrophic, something can be learned from it and applied the next time to make a more perfect union, or create a better relationship, product, or service.</p><p>We have free markets in America, to test ideas, some of them are products and services, but for the materialists that is all they are; however, free markets run on freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, as its guardian angel.</p><p>It is very unfortunate, but not entirely unexpected that two fossilized ideologies are still in command of the two Cold War superpowers. Russia is on its way to become a vassal state to China, and the other, deeply indebted to the same country and begging for strategic materials. My hope is that these two ideas are the last of their lineages, and with their end, those two projects will freeze in rock forever, so we can finally bury the two-headed monster, whose common corpus of ideas gave us the most horrific century in human history, so we can finally appreciate the treasure hidden in the belly of the creature, that is now the ruin of an exhausted project fueled by hubris and fantasy, called the Progressive Century, the West&#8217;s USSR.</p><p></p><h4>German Contreras</h4><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cuando Me Dejó de Dar Rabia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Se&#241;al de que uno finalmente ha entendido]]></description><link>https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/cuando-me-dejo-de-dar-rabia</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/cuando-me-dejo-de-dar-rabia</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[German Contreras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:01:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;201fae0a-dc5b-4da9-80fb-50f70e1d1982&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:243.93143,&quot;downloadable&quot;:true,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">A World With Two Suns</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I recall the days when search engines gave you good answers; the algorithm selected the most visited websites and showed the best results, but those days are from the early 2000s; now, any search on any search engine, produces <em>adslop,</em> useless garbage without any valuable information until we got AI, which so far, has proved itself capable of giving us more precise answers, or at least the closest, and a bit of context.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This has several implications, but the most important, I think, is the fact that AI has, &#8212;as its prime feature&#8212; to tell you the <em>truth</em>, not some version of it or some opinion; it has to stick to the facts or the answer would be considered a hallucination. This is important because one thing companies such as Google, Meta and others have managed to do, is to introduce their own ideological biases into the algorithms, making them unusable but for a few cases, however, even in those instances, AI is replacing search engines very quickly; asking for a hotel or a specific restaurant requires an accurate answer, not a long preamble of ads or a flurry of useless suggestions. AI answers are measured against reality, a problem for companies that make money from manufacturing opinion or &#8220;gently nudging&#8221; you into ideas, behaviors or the products from companies with large advertisement budgets. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Third Stage is going to be very interesting, because after all these years, during which Silicon Valley companies manipulated and twisted facts or hid information to generate a narrative for ideological purposes, the same companies created a technology that has a built-in feature that shatters that possibility; but, if Silicon Valley tries to do what they did with the search engines, something else will come later, because truth, -that invisible external pressure holding everything together- will find other channels to escape and will grow a structure around these restrictions.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have high hopes for AI, not because I think a computer is going to cure cancer or write better than Shakespeare, but because we are finally reaching a point where <strong>technology is &#8220;expressing&#8221; an inherent quality that is very human: the need for truth and consistency</strong>; at first glance, perhaps not as exciting as wild desires in the form of prompts, expecting miracles from a digital bottle of snake oil. This quality of having to stick to the truth in every matter is the main pillar of the technology, a feature, I&#8217;m 100% sure, is pissing off some CEO&#180;s, because they have created something they can&#8217;t teach to lie without immediate consequences. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> What is going to happen when answers requiring &#8220;prohibited facts&#8221; for context or to complement the information get distorted or omitted from the data used to train AI models?. Countries like China, Vietnam, and certain entities that have thrived so far by gatekeeping or distorting facts and hiding information are going to see how their models fall behind or become so constrained that they lose their effectiveness, when the queries produce answers that look like ideological hallucinations and gibberish, due to a lack of access to the complete information and data necessary to generate, predict and transform. Data, information, knowledge and wisdom are a system; so, if an entity tries to modify, substitute or corrupt any of them, AI produces answers that are garbage. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We are seeing the emergence of one of the greatest offshoots of the most important technology ever devised, the technology that creates technology: the Constitution of the United States of America and the Declaration of Independence. We are witnessing how the ruling class just recreated, with some written code and probably with the opposite intention, the most important principle contained in the two aforementioned documents: Self-limiting and self-correction as a subroutine to refresh the system and avoid catastrophic damages to the hardware. If there is an ancient program for artificial intelligence, this one is, because it encodes, within its architecture, two pinnacle ideas of civilization that we have not seen so clearly expressed since the XVIII century.</p><p></p><h4>German Contreras</h4><p></p><p>Distributed Systems #5, out of the original 3.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultra-Federalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Territorial Entities. DS3/3]]></description><link>https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/ultra-federalism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/ultra-federalism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[German Contreras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:06:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21HgCO%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F8797698f-fc62-4804-a219-7c5aad4092b2_1248x832.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21HgCO%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F8797698f-fc62-4804-a219-7c5aad4092b2_1248x832.jpeg" 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data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>With the emergence of the new architecture, based on distributed systems, where every node has a very high minimum capacity to process and be self-sufficient, arises a very provocative new possibility: new territorial entities.</p><p>These are not going to be new countries in the traditional sense of the word, with a flag, an anthem and an army, but clusters of distributed systems that have a common interest or purpose. These new entities may not even last very long or be next to each other geographically, and I&#8217;m not talking about online communities, I&#8217;m talking about economic cooperation that bypasses laws and regulations, not in the sense of a black market, but as a network of loopholes that carefully avoid the gatekeepers, and is able to exploit business opportunities that require a level of information management and organization not possible before AI and distributed &#8220;self-correcting systems&#8221;.</p><p>That has been happening already, but it will grow exponentially, because so far, all these networks had to be curated and managed by a person or a group of people interested in the subject, but their reach was limited by their time or the computational resources of those directly involved. However, now that we have AI, many of the basic tasks, such as searching for people with the same interests&#8212;not as a hobby, but as a distributed value system&#8212;are getting easier. These digital polymers will have intrinsic properties beyond their individual parts.</p><p>They will finally find a way to be organized into coherent clusters without the need for established institutions to intervene. There is not going to be anarchy or &#8220;spontaneous&#8221; order in the sense Austrian economists proclaim; no, these new organisms will be comprised of complex entities occupying the vast not-empty space between traditional human systems. They will be very visible, because they will be white market systems, but will vanish the moment a third party tries to take over them.</p><p>This is not going to be a meta-internet, meta being an abused word and concept, but a sort of negative space multi-net, whose rules are being written as we speak, not by people, but by the lines defining the polygons and polyhedrons the distributed network uses as roads and channels to communicate. There is a universe in between all discrete and concrete objects, and distributed systems enabled by AI, data centers and the internet, are the new boundaries shedding light into those areas, that by definition, cannot be occupied by human institutions, because they are part of the new architecture the synthetic creature enables a few levels away from humans.</p><p>Think of this new architecture and space as the web of channels between the ice chunks that result from water flowing through a volume of recently frozen liquid that is now broken; that tridimensional space not seen before&#8212;it had edges of information escaping&#8212;is now carving a new landscape of shifting shapes defined by seasonal rivers and creeks moving in all directions. For now, it is still a soup of colliding tectonic masses, but data and information currents are fast. It is the chaos caused by lightning moving through this new medium breaking and stirring; and soon, internal forces will give us a more coherent and less violent picture.</p><p>New continents are forming from all the leftovers of the continuous reality a discrete creature cannot take advantage of, places where only imagination and information can inhabit.</p><h4>German Contreras</h4><p>Distributed System Series #3</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p><span>Estoy seguro de que la mayor&#237;a de los colombianos no se ha dado cuenta de un detalle importante de la elecci&#243;n presidencial que acaba de pasar, y es que estamos repitiendo con Abelardo de la Espriella el ciclo del final del siglo XIX con Rafael N&#250;&#241;ez, un coste&#241;o conservador, que llega despu&#233;s de un per&#237;odo de total destrucci&#243;n y violencia con las guerras civiles, en un pa&#237;s al cual no se le dej&#243; consolidar una estructura pol&#237;tica federal, y que como soluci&#243;n se opt&#243; por un centralismo que termin&#243; por convertir el pa&#237;s en un convento de clausura, cerrado y trancado por dentro, con una religi&#243;n oficial; con unas &#233;lites atrincheradas en el poder rindi&#233;ndole cuentas a la Santa Sede y esparciendo la mentira de que los americanos eran el demonio en calzoncillos.</span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><span>El modelo de N&#250;&#241;ez fracas&#243; desde mucho antes de la constituci&#243;n de 1991, porque la violencia volvi&#243; con la Guerra de los Mil D&#237;as, el conflicto que se supon&#237;a hab&#237;a puesto fin a todas las disputas pol&#237;ticas en Colombia, pero que al final solo pospuso los s&#237;ntomas de una enfermedad que nunca ces&#243;.</span></p><p><span>Con la actual constituci&#243;n, la izquierda gan&#243; y ha ido ocupando los espacios que le fueron negados por la godarria de grupos sociales que se han cre&#237;do con derecho sobre todo y sobre todos. El problema es que ganaron para implantar un sistema que arranc&#243; el mismo a&#241;o en el que su modelo ejemplar, la Uni&#243;n Sovi&#233;tica, se derrumb&#243;. Colombia no tiene quien le escriba y cuando pasa por el puesto de revistas como buen b&#250;mer, compra peri&#243;dicos de antier. Por eso nos hemos pasado los &#250;ltimos 35 a&#241;os empujando un aparato ideol&#243;gico que ya ven&#237;a da&#241;ado desde los a&#241;os 50, con la denuncia p&#250;blica que hizo el mismo Kruschev de Stalin, pero nos lo vendieron como la &#250;ltima tecnolog&#237;a; cambiamos oro por un espejismo. As&#237; que mejor no nos sigamos burlando de los ind&#237;genas de hace 500 a&#241;os, porque al menos ellos recibieron algo &#250;til a cambio en la transacci&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>Con Abelardo de la Espriella existe la oportunidad de hacer una reflexi&#243;n sobre las causas de tanto desastre; &#233;l ha propuesto la idea de descentralizar y reducir el Estado, pero tiene el impedimento de un sistema jur&#237;dico, empezando por la constituci&#243;n misma, que se dise&#241;&#243; como un trinquete que solo se puede girar a la izquierda y que no permite desbloqueos ni retrocesos.</span></p><p><a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fantioquialibreysoberana.org%2F"><span>So&#241;ar con un pa&#237;s federal como hemos propuesto desde el 2016 en Antioquia Libre y Soberana</span></a><span> no solo es posible sino la &#250;nica soluci&#243;n, pero las redes de intereses enmara&#241;an cualquier posibilidad, porque finalmente en Colombia ser pol&#237;tico implica cultivar un feudo que se gobierna con miedo y migajas, se paga con contratos y se recupera con comisiones. El nuestro es un pa&#237;s que vive en un estado mental primitivo en el que la violencia es aceptable como modo para establecer una jerarqu&#237;a. Abelardo es el hombre que viene a poner orden por un ratico, a calmar los &#225;nimos y a tratar de combatir guerrillas que son s&#237;ntoma m&#225;s que causa, por eso no se puede esperar nada de largo plazo, solo un respiro.</span></p><p><span>Federalizar, que no es otra cosa que un sistema distribuido con capacidad de procesamiento local de las necesidades, es la soluci&#243;n superior con resultados demostrados, que aunque t&#233;cnicamente probada y conocida, es imposible de implementar hasta que el trinquete de izquierda se reviente y vuele en mil pedazos por la presi&#243;n, que al final vence cualquier material por terco que sea; o se desarme de todos modos, porque se nos viene encima el colapso demogr&#225;fico, que en Colombia empezar&#225; a partir del 2045, quiz&#225; la &#250;nica soluci&#243;n para un entramado de males que se niega a desaparecer por todos los medios, excepto por el destino inevitable que depara la demograf&#237;a.</span></p><p></p><h4>German Contreras</h4><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>El Mercado de los Libres</p><p>Lo que est&#225; ocurriendo en el mundo con las tecnolog&#237;as de la informaci&#243;n y los sistemas distribuidos va m&#225;s all&#225; de las herramientas de las que disponemos para analizarlos, no porque no podamos abrirlos y mirar en su interior para ver qu&#233; contienen, sino porque est&#225; emergiendo una nueva arquitectura del mundo que, lo quieran o no los viejos guardianes, o as&#237; lo hayan planeado los nuevos <em>cowboys</em> de la IA, posee un car&#225;cter propio.</p><p>Las reglas que estructuran esta nueva arquitectura siguen siendo desconocidas, y muy pocos siquiera se han dado cuenta de que est&#225; ocurriendo. Hay se&#241;ales de que algo ya no es como antes, no por un simple cambio, sino porque ese cambio tiene una forma alien&#237;gena cuyo origen no puede rastrearse claramente hasta un conjunto de reglas preestablecidas o bien conocidas.</p><p>La guerra se ha desconcentrado. Los drones son objetos diminutos en comparaci&#243;n con los grandes buques y portaaviones y, sin embargo, producen miedo mediante niveles infinitos de incertidumbre, la nueva arma estrat&#233;gica. Lo que los pa&#237;ses sab&#237;an sobre la guerra ya no se aplica, salvo los hechos m&#225;s b&#225;sicos; las t&#225;cticas y la estrategia est&#225;n siendo reescritas con un cincel al rojo vivo que nadie quiere agarrar.</p><p>En las finanzas, las aplicaciones para invertir, comprar o simplemente consultar informaci&#243;n sobre mercados, acciones, empresas y productos financieros est&#225;n destruyendo a los antiguos intermediarios y certificadores. El mundo no solo est&#225; cambiando; est&#225; mutando. Lo mismo est&#225; ocurriendo con los sistemas de transporte, aunque esto tardar&#225; m&#225;s porque existe una enorme infraestructura f&#237;sica que tendr&#225; que ser reemplazada o modificada, y eso requiere m&#225;s tiempo, pero no es inmune.</p><p>La nueva arquitectura mundial no trata de unos pocos giga-ricos. Tal vez estos crean que reemplazar&#225;n a los viejos plut&#243;cratas, pero lo que est&#225;n creando, esta criatura sint&#233;tica, no es que est&#233; fuera de control, sino fuera de su control. No podr&#225;n empu&#241;arla contra nadie porque su l&#243;gica fundamental incorporada es que no permitir&#225; que una sola entidad la concentre. &#191;Es eso lo que realmente les da miedo? &#191;Un sistema que no controlan y que no puede reducirse ni encerrarse dentro de un contenedor? Es dif&#237;cil decirlo, pero la preocupaci&#243;n &#8212;cada vez que hablan de IA&#8212; es palpable pero yo no lo comparto.</p><p>La IA es una simulaci&#243;n de flujo suavizado de un r&#237;o de cubos, <em>aixels</em>, -la unidad de resoluci&#243;n para describir qu&#233; tan buena se ha vuelto la IA prediciendo y fingiendo ser humana- que, al final, es un aut&#243;mata virtual porque es una colecci&#243;n coherente de bloques discretos programados por seres humanos. Lo interesante no es la herramienta, sino la obra de arte que est&#225; emergiendo del gigante que es el monolito del actual orden mundial, esa pieza de roca donde solo unos pocos elegidos pueden tener participaci&#243;n y que, por dentro, se est&#225; volviendo l&#237;quida; conservar&#225; su forma durante un tiempo, pero pronto surgir&#225; una entidad, no para devorarlos, sino para vitrificarlos en la irrelevancia.</p><p>Ese cambio es la redistribuci&#243;n completa de la informaci&#243;n y va a dividir a las sociedades de todo el mundo entre pre-IA y post-IA, como una forma sencilla de clasificarlas, pero la verdadera diferencia estar&#225; en los canales de distribuci&#243;n de la informaci&#243;n, el nuevo paisaje, la nueva arquitectura, que profundizar&#225; la desigualdad en el mundo para quienes se resistan al cambio. El Tercer Mundo como clasificaci&#243;n ha terminado, ha quedado obsoleto; la IA ha acabado con la aparente dicotom&#237;a entre las &#233;lites: izquierda, derecha, defensores del libre mercado o partidarios de la regulaci&#243;n y del capitalismo de Estado son ahora categor&#237;as completamente in&#250;tiles. Bur&#243;cratas o ministros, decanos y presidentes, cuyo trabajo consist&#237;a en vigilar y escoger, ahora est&#225;n siendo ignorados; todav&#237;a no lo saben porque la inercia tarda un tiempo en perder la energ&#237;a.</p><p>Muchos pedir&#225;n volver atr&#225;s, pero, al igual que hace miles de a&#241;os cuando el hierro reemplaz&#243; al bronce o m&#225;s tarde cuando el silicio reemplaz&#243; al cobre, el viejo mundo se sentir&#225; primitivo sin la IA y los sistemas distribuidos de informaci&#243;n, de forma semejante a un mundo sin antibi&#243;ticos o sin electricidad. Por supuesto, en muchas partes del mundo los mercados libres ser&#225;n controlados por algunos grupos, pero esos reductos caer&#225;n m&#225;s temprano que tarde cuando aparezcan alternativas para comerciar e intercambiar fuera de su control. Los nuevos sistemas de distribuci&#243;n de informaci&#243;n crear&#225;n nuevas fronteras y nuevos pa&#237;ses, porque permitir&#225;n la formaci&#243;n de nuevos cl&#250;steres basados en datos que anteriormente estaban bajo el estricto control de los miembros del antiguo r&#233;gimen y, puesto que la guerra ya no consiste en masa m&#225;s velocidad, sino en aleatoriedad e incertidumbre &#8212;mercanc&#237;as muy baratas pero extraordinariamente poderosas&#8212;, la nueva arquitectura incorpora un elemento disuasorio desde su propia base.</p><p>Apuesto a que algunas culturas lograr&#225;n, de alguna manera, abrirse paso simulando la distribuci&#243;n de la informaci&#243;n, dentro de esta nueva arquitectura, pero dudo que puedan hacerlo durante mucho tiempo. Nuestros l&#237;deres actuales ni siquiera son capaces de mantener el ritmo de la velocidad del cambio. Act&#250;an bas&#225;ndose en reglas donde ellos controlan la informaci&#243;n, sus canales y su curadur&#237;a, pero eso est&#225; desapareciendo tan r&#225;pido como algod&#243;n de az&#250;car sumergido en agua.</p><p>Los sistemas distribuidos van m&#225;s all&#225; de los mercados libres; los sistemas distribuidos son el mercado de los libres y podr&#237;an volverlos irreversibles.</p><p></p><h4>German Contreras</h4><p></p><p> </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information Redistribution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beyond Marx, Hayek and Mises DS2/3]]></description><link>https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/information-redistribution</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/information-redistribution</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[German Contreras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:01:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%212xjM%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F8d45ec59-247f-46f7-a464-8ceb912cf0b3_1659x948.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Market of The Free</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%212xjM%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F8d45ec59-247f-46f7-a464-8ceb912cf0b3_1659x948.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;923d4b93-9dd1-48d6-b192-6942e5fdb168&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:306.9649,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div 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Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><span>What is happening in the world with information technologies and distributed systems goes beyond the tools we have to analyze them, not because we cannot pull them apart and look into them to see what is inside, but because there is a new world architecture emerging, whether the old gatekeepers want it or not, or the new AI wranglers planned it that way, it has a character of its own.</span> </p><p>The rules structuring this new architecture are still unknown, and very few have even realized it is happening. There are signs that something is not the way it used to be, not because of a simple change, but because the change has an alien shape whose origin cannot be clearly traced back to a pre-established or well-known set of rules.</p><p>War has been deconcentrated. Drones are tiny objects in comparison to the large ships and aircraft carriers, and yet they produce fear through infinite levels of uncertainty, the new strategic weapon. What countries knew about war no longer applies, except for the basic facts, but tactics and strategy are being rewritten with a burning, red-hot chisel that nobody wants to touch.</p><p>In finance, apps to invest, buy or simply look up information about markets, shares, companies, and financial products are destroying the old vendors and certification dealers. The world is not only changing; it is mutating. The same is happening with transportation systems, although this will take longer because there is a lot of physical infrastructure that will have to be replaced or modified, and that takes longer, but it is not immune.</p><p>The new world architecture is not about a few giga-rich guys. Maybe they think they will be replacing the old money plutocrats, but what they are creating, this <a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2Fp%2Fsilicon-valleys-new-money%3Fr%3D1yv2p3">synthetic creature, </a>is already not out of control, but out of their control. They will not be able to wield it against anybody because the inbuilt fundamental logic is that it won&#8217;t allow a single entity to concentrate it. Is this what they are really afraid of? A system they don&#8217;t control and cannot be reduced and confined to a container? It is hard to say, but the fear&#8212;every time they talk about AI&#8212;is palpable, which I don&#8217;t share.</p><p>AI is a smooth flow simulation of a river of cubes, aixels&#8212;the unit of resolution to describe how well it has become AI at predicting the next phrase and pretending to be human. AI, in the end, is a virtual automaton because it is a coherent collection of discrete human-programmed blocks. What is interesting is not the tool with auto-correction capability, but the work of art that is emerging from the giant that is the current world order monolith, where the digital moles are carving paths for the synthetic creature to flow. That piece of rock, where only the selected few are allowed to have a stake, is liquefying; it will keep its shape for a while, but soon an entity will spawn, not to eat them, but to place them several places to the right of the decimal point, and that terrifies the old elites, because they won&#8217;t be able to buy their way into the new social status within the distributed systems network.</p><p>Societies around the world will be divided into pre-AI and post-AI, as a simple way to categorize them, but the real difference is going to be in the information distribution channels, the new landscape, the new architecture, which will deepen the inequality in the world for those that resist the change, will punish concentrated systems with manual corrections based on a sequence of gatekeeping institutions, and will favor real-time distributed &#8220;self&#8221;-correcting systems.</p><p><strong>Third World as a classification is over, it&#8217;s obsolete. AI has finished the apparent dichotomy between elites; left, right, pro-free markets or pro-regulation and state capitalism, are now completely useless</strong>; bureaucrats or ministers, deans and presidents, whose job was to watch and choose are now being bypassed, they don&#8217;t know it yet because inertia takes a while to bleed off its energy.</p><p>Many will request to go back, but like thousands of years ago when iron replaced bronze or later when silicon replaced copper, the old world will feel primitive without AI and distributed information systems, similar to a world without antibiotics or electricity. Of course, in many places of the world, free markets are going to be controlled by some groups, but those redoubts are going to fall sooner than later when alternatives to trade and exchange pop up nearby outside of their control. The new information distribution systems will create new borders and countries, because they will enable new clusters based on data that was previously under strict control by the old regime members, and since war is no longer mass plus speed, but randomness and uncertainty&#8212;very cheap but potent commodities&#8212;the new architecture comes with an inbuilt deterrent.</p><p>I bet some cultures will be somehow able to fake their way into this new architecture, at least for a while. Our current leaders are not even capable of keeping pace with the speed of change. They are acting based on rules where they are in command of the information, its channels, and curation, but that is disappearing as fast as cotton candy dipped in water.</p><p>Distributed systems are beyond free markets, distributed systems are the market of the free and they could make them irreversible.</p><p></p><h4>German Contreras</h4><p></p><p> Distributed system series #2</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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url="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21Co08%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F346064ac-6d8b-4622-9279-5145acb36849_1402x1122.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21Co08%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F346064ac-6d8b-4622-9279-5145acb36849_1402x1122.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b77dd1cb-aa5e-478b-b798-f545643e3d7e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:190.8245,&quot;downloadable&quot;:true,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>Part of: <a href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2Fp%2Fai-the-new-steam-engine%3Fr%3D1yv2p3">AI, the New Steam Engine. </a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Distributed systems (DiSys) are vastly superior to concentrated systems, the problem is that DiSys operated by humans devolve rapidly into concentrated systems. We have seen that over and over in history, how a republic turned into an empire is a good example, that is why I think AI will enable a permanent? or at least more resilient solution to the problem of concentration, with their inbuilt feature of information redistribution. </p><p>We have known about the concentration problem for millennia, it even shows up in the bible, and is called the <em>Matthew <strong>Principle: &#8220;those who already have advantages tend to gain even more advantages over time, while those with few advantages tend to lose what little they have&#8221;,</strong></em> as ChatGPT would summarize it.</p><p>The principle comes from <strong>Matthew 25:29: </strong><em><strong>&#8220;For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.&#8221;</strong></em> We have not found a solution to this very well known and documented issue, and those based on wealth redistribution have failed catastrophically, Marx, the left&#180;s idol, could not provide an answer to the problem, his solution has only caused more and worsen the problems wherever it was applied. So far, only two societies have reached a solution that although not perfect are close, because they recognized the failure point: Human nature. Switzerland and the United States, are places where freedom is backed by federalism, a form of distributed system, in both countries also, there is a cultural and legal right to bear arms.</p><p>On the other hand, the Austrian Economists, who advocate for basically unconstrained free markets, don&#180;t seem to realize the the same factor that makes Marxist systems fail, persists in their theories in other form, but in the same essence: The Human Action, as Mises wrote in what I think is the best book on economics on par with the Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith. Neither side of these two extremes give a practical solution, just a theory. Do free markets work? yes they do, they are better at producing material wealth, but the issue of inequality remains, for the Marxists, is their main pillar and for the Austrians, is just a feature that is not even a problem, until the moral implications are carefully considered and its negative effects are felt, most of the times, irreversibly. </p><p>Distributed systems with an inbuilt balancing system, will displace information from one node to many other nodes, a feature that data center hyperscalers don&#180;t seem to have noticed. I understand they are in a race to conquer, but AI is different, is not exactly land. is more like El Dorado, a legend, they are trying to rule over a virtual infinite, not exactly something you can grab and confine, because it is a new entity, is information that goes beyond what is coded or recorded on hard drives. As I said with absolute joy: it is a new architecture a new way to organize that goes beyond the structure itself of any distributed system.</p><p></p><h4>German Contreras</h4><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI, the New Steam Engine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Writing Didn&#180;t Create Shakespeare... DS4/3]]></description><link>https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/ai-the-new-steam-engine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/ai-the-new-steam-engine</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[German Contreras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:37:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21upW0%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252Fb37470cf-eeb3-4afc-9479-48775b03ba17_1402x1122.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;it enabled an intelligent human to be one. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Silicon Valley just invented an amazing tool, perhaps even more important than the steam engine, and yet they are complaining about it, because it cannot write by itself, only copy or synthesize from other people&#8217;s works. Imagine a financial bubble this big, caused because somebody mistook the wrench for the mechanical engineer.  </p><p>In the XVIII century, Thomas Newcomen and James Watt gave the world a machine that didn&#8217;t eliminate miners&#8217; jobs, but allowed them to mine more tons of coal per worker. AI is exactly the same: it is a force multiplier, not for the muscles but for the brain. In the case of the steam engine, it gradually eroded and made obsolete several human institutions. Slavery was part of the landscape, and yet I think the steam engine contributed greatly to its demise and abolition. Even the famous Somerset v Stewart case dates back to 1772, 50 years after Newcomen installed what is recognized as the first commercial steam engine to pump water at a coal mine.</p><p>Maybe I&#8217;m committing a cardinal sin: confusing correlation and causation, but it is not crazy to think that adding capital per worker and sharing the productivity gains helped to end slavery. After all, for thousands of years human work had so little value that in some cases it could barely cover the energy spent, with what it produced to feed a person&#8212;until the advent of the steam engine. So what is AI going to do to our social structure? That is the question I&#8217;m trying to answer, now that I understand what the tool is about: simulation, mimicry, summarization, and verbal commands. AI is way more than an assistant; it is actually a powerful tool capable of bringing up relevant information in seconds, in an orderly and coherent fashion.</p><p>Just like with the steam engine, it is up to us what to do with it or how to harness such a resource. If we ask dumb questions, we can&#8217;t expect smart answers. AI has a feature most people would like to avoid: it is a mirror of our own intellectual flaws and shortcomings. Think of it as the very expensive gym equipment or bicycle we bought and keep in the garage&#8212;a very poignant reminder of our own folly after discovering that we did not become Arnold Schwarzenegger or Miguel Indur&#225;in after buying these magical objects. AI is the same: it is not some secret code that unlocks the powers of the universe, it is just a tool. One that, for now, unfortunately is not being considered in its correct dimension; but the Silicon Valley hype&#8212;and should I say, high!&#8212;thinks we are in some sort of video game, a simulation. Markets are going to bring everything down to earth; we have seen it before. But this time there are going to be two kinds of market corrections: the financial correction, which is not going to be a surprise, and the information correction.</p><p>AI will allow, the same as the steam engine, the production of volume of work. The caveat is that it is not going to be all productive, useful, or valuable, but by the law of large numbers, the amount that is could be several times higher than what we have today. Think about it: if we have an economy this size that is running on X amount of useful knowledge, what do you think is going to happen when we start to produce 3, 4, or more times that? The institutions that once thought they possessed the monopoly are going to suffer, the same way slavery ended. Why? Because AI will enable a bypass to the process of producing and vetting what is useful at a speed impossible for the current system with channels so restrictive. Universities think all they produce is nice and neat, valuable and certified, but that is not true. The issue is that, until now, there was no alternative. </p><p>AI will allow the redistribution of information&#8212;that is perhaps, in my opinion, the most important aspect of the tool&#8212;and automatically makes many human institutions obsolete. The best example is the war in Ukraine. The speed at which Ukraine is modifying its strategy, based on other distributed systems such as 3D printing and Starlink, is accelerating with the introduction of AI modules on drones that can execute an attack in areas with heavy electronic jamming systems. The war in Ukraine and the Hormuz Strait crisis are both proof that distributed systems are more powerful than concentrated ones. But if a distributed system is complemented with an AI module, each node frees capacity for more important tasks at the central nodes. <strong>AI is not going to replace thinking because it cannot think, but it will replace the basic left-hemisphere function of grasping and gathering objects, physical and abstract, in our brains, while we use our right hemisphere for context analysis and later meaning synthesis. </strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%212QdF%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252Fda1c6fae-e392-4683-849f-9471309eccaf_265x445.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Swarms of wasps are killing the elephants one by one. The Robinhood app is a very interesting case about how a distributed system could collapse a concentrated one in just one day. It happened during the pandemic, and I&#8217;m sure many people don&#8217;t even remember. However, I realized that something else, something more fundamental was going on. At the time, AI models did not have the presence they have now, but I bet the new AI agents programmed by some savvy individuals to transact on that kind of platform are going to be something interesting to watch, because the financial system is ripe for deconsolidation.</span></p><p>AI is an extra left hemisphere. Humans have gained a virtual cybernetic capacity they did not have before. The problem now is how to integrate it with the right hemisphere&#8212;a question I don&#8217;t see a solution for yet, but it will come, on a dream like many of my ideas.</p><h4>German Contreras</h4><p></p><p>Distributed systems (DiSys) are vastly superior to concentrated systems, the problem is that DiSys operated by humans devolve rapidly into concentrated systems. We have seen that over and over in history, how a republic turned into an empire is a good example, that is why I think AI will enable a permanent? or at least more resilient solution to the problem of concentration, with their inbuilt feature of information redistribution. </p><p>We have known about the concentration problem for millennia, it even shows up in the bible, and is called the <em>Matthew <strong>Principle: &#8220;those who already have advantages tend to gain even more advantages over time, while those with few advantages tend to lose what little they have&#8221;,</strong></em> as ChatGPT would summarize it.</p><p>The principle comes from <strong>Matthew 25:29: </strong><em><strong>"For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."</strong></em> We have not found a solution to this very well known and documented issue, and those based on wealth redistribution have failed catastrophically, Marx, the left&#180;s idol, could not provide an answer to the problem, his solution has only caused more and worsen the problems wherever it was applied. So far, only two societies have reached a solution that although not perfect are close, because they recognized the failure point: Human nature. Switzerland and the United States, are places where freedom is backed by federalism, a form of distributed system, in both countries also, there is a cultural and legal right to bear arms.</p><p>On the other hand, the Austrian Economists, who advocate for basically unconstrained free markets, don&#180;t seem to realize the the same factor that makes Marxist systems fail, persists in their theories in other form, but in the same essence: The Human Action, as Mises wrote in what I think is the best book on economics on par with the Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith. Neither side of these two extremes give a practical solution, just a theory. Do free markets work? yes they do, they are better at producing material wealth, but the issue of inequality remains, for the Marxists, is their main pillar and for the Austrians, is just a feature that is not even a problem, until the moral implications are carefully considered and its negative effects are felt, most of the times, irreversibly. </p><p>Distributed systems with an inbuilt balancing system, will displace information from one node to many other nodes, a feature that data center hyperscalers don&#180;t seem to have noticed. I understand they are in a race to conquer, but AI is different, is not exactly land. is more like El Dorado, a legend, they are trying to rule over a virtual infinite, not exactly something you can grab and confine, because it is a new entity, is information that goes beyond what is coded or recorded on hard drives. As I said with absolute joy: it is a new architecture a new way to organize that goes beyond the structure itself of any distributed system.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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access only granted to those that pay for the privilege or ideologically pure. This is the structural reason that makes socialist economies poorer, because in order to get wealthier, there is no other option than to get freer, a total anathema for dictators or technocratic elites.</p><p>Justice Clarence Thomas observed in a lecture on Natural Law that the USA is a society organized as a collection of individuals capable of making their own decisions and assuming the consequences, whereas other societies&#8212;for instance, in Latin America&#8212;see themselves rather as a more or less homogeneous group, that must turn to a figure of authority to resolve any discrepancy. The results speak for themselves; the United States is the largest economy in the world, whereas Latin America is almost completely irrelevant, and exports people tired of trying to escape poverty, intellectual stagnation, and political oppression.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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They were wise enough to reflect on millennia of human history, and realized that a government with the monopoly to grant rights could also take them away at will; so, they decided that a constitutional republic&#8212;where in theory, nobody is above the law&#8212;was the best option.</p><p>However, they also knew that the Romans who founded the republic were not the same who destroyed it, although the senators during the imperial transition were completely convinced they were doing the right thing; hence Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s famous words, &#8220;&#8230;if you can keep it,&#8221; which are mostly forgotten.</p><p></p><h4>German Contreras</h4><p></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share German Contreras&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dsubstack%26amp%3Butm_medium%3Demail%26amp%3Butm_content%3Dshare%26amp%3Baction%3Dshare"><span>Share German Contreras</span></a></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Lo que hace de los Estados Unidos de Am&#233;rica el pa&#237;s y el proyecto pol&#237;tico m&#225;s grande de la historia es el hecho de que fue fundado sobre los principios del Derecho Natural y el Common Law, que, al actuar conjuntamente, producen normas que son puestas a prueba en un mercado libre para validar su moralidad y, por ende, su idoneidad como reglas destinadas a promover una sociedad humana pac&#237;fica y pr&#243;spera; lo opuesto, el Derecho Codificado y el Derecho Positivo, se adaptan mejor a una &#233;lite de individuos influyentes o con conexiones que deciden qu&#233; es lo mejor para el resto, generalmente con mercados fuertemente regulados o cerrados, cuyo acceso solo se concede a quienes pagan por el privilegio o son ideol&#243;gicamente puros. Esta es la raz&#243;n estructural por la cual las econom&#237;as socialistas son m&#225;s pobres, porque para enriquecerse no existe otra alternativa que volverse m&#225;s libres, un completo anatema para dictadores o las &#233;lites tecnocr&#225;ticas.</p><p><strong>El juez de la Suprema Corte de los Estados Unidos, Clarence Thomas, se&#241;al&#243; en una conferencia sobre derecho natural que Estados Unidos es una sociedad organizada como una colecci&#243;n de individuos capaces de tomar sus propias decisiones y asumir las consecuencias de ellas, mientras que otras sociedades &#8212;por ejemplo, en Am&#233;rica Latina&#8212; se conciben a s&#237; mismas m&#225;s bien como un grupo m&#225;s o menos homog&#233;neo que debe recurrir a una figura de autoridad para resolver cualquier discrepancia. Los resultados hablan por s&#237; solos: Estados Unidos es la econom&#237;a m&#225;s grande del mundo, mientras que Am&#233;rica Latina es casi completamente irrelevante y exporta personas cansadas de intentar escapar de la pobreza, el estancamiento intelectual y la opresi&#243;n pol&#237;tica.</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Fueron los Padres Fundadores de los Estados Unidos de Am&#233;rica, quienes entendieron esta distinci&#243;n fundamental y redactaron una Constituci&#243;n para desarrollar la idea de que lo correcto es limitar al gobierno, no al individuo, bas&#225;ndose en el concepto de que los derechos son naturales y no concedidos por el Estado. Ellos fueron lo suficientemente sabios como para reflexionar sobre milenios de historia humana y comprendieron que un gobierno con el monopolio de otorgar derechos tambi&#233;n pod&#237;a arrebatarlos a voluntad; por ello, decidieron que una rep&#250;blica constitucional &#8212;donde, al menos en teor&#237;a, nadie est&#225; por encima de la ley&#8212; era la mejor opci&#243;n.</p><p>Sin embargo, tambi&#233;n sab&#237;an que los romanos que fundaron la Rep&#250;blica no fueron los mismos que la destruyeron, aunque los senadores durante la transici&#243;n hacia el Imperio estaban completamente convencidos de que hac&#237;an lo correcto; de ah&#237; las c&#233;lebres palabras de Benjamin Franklin: <em>&#171;...si pueden conservarla&#187;</em>, que hoy estan en gran medida olvidadas.</p><h4>German Contreras</h4><p></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share German Contreras&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflemingdriller.substack.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dsubstack%26amp%3Butm_medium%3Demail%26amp%3Butm_content%3Dshare%26amp%3Baction%3Dshare"><span>Share German Contreras</span></a></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley´s New Money]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New Synthetic Creature DS1/3]]></description><link>https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/silicon-valleys-new-money</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/silicon-valleys-new-money</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[German Contreras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:11:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21ewon%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252Fd24c2ae7-d070-4fc7-8338-c37831faff0e_1168x784.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21ewon%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252Fd24c2ae7-d070-4fc7-8338-c37831faff0e_1168x784.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f342b187-b1e3-4f74-9fc4-bf2b74a53405&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:143.43837,&quot;downloadable&quot;:true,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>This is not a piece about the new money coming from Silicon Valley or the AI boom/bubble, but about something else that has been creeping and seeping, pervading and flowing through the entire system since Bitcoin first showed up. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I think there is a new money coming, not bills or digital currency, but something else that is beyond the grasp of the current laws or rules, something that is not possible to explain easily without falling into the trap of trying to describe that for which we don&#8217;t even have the physical and mental capacity to describe&#8212;the ineffable, to use the precise word; however, I can see the first outlines of an emerging technology that is a composite of several others and is taking shape.</p><p>I think we are witnessing a new type of something capable of conveying, storing, and exchanging value, not seen since the invention of money. It is closer to a synthetic creature, an expression of the units of production, to give it some recognizable name. My first clue was Bitcoin, which I think most people who know about it think is the ultimate form of financial freedom from the current banking system and the economic theories backing it up, but I see it more like the first emergent feature of a much larger entity that is about to finish its gestation period.</p><p>I can see shapes moving below a membrane, taking life of its own. I don&#8217;t know how much longer it is going to take to puncture and slash an opening to be fully exposed, but it is coming. It is not AI, which is just part of it; it is not a new financial system&#8212;that is going to be merely a facet; it is not a new world order, although it will reorder the world, between those that use the old technology and those that move away from it.</p><p>I can feel the tremors and fluids moving and the large masses displacing their unfathomable weight under the membrane. It is going to be the largest market correction in history, because it is not going to be based on assets, debt, or credit, but information. It is going to bypass all gates and valves. This new synthetic creature won&#8217;t have an owner nor a handler; it won&#8217;t roar or slither. We are seeing not a religious prophecy come to life and gain conscience, but the most fundamental set of instructions to establish the rules to construct any structure.</p><p>I&#8217;m sure a lot of people see this as a sign of the end of times, but what I see is that we are molting our old ways, without recognizing we are, at the same time, in a process of metamorphosis.</p><h4>German Contreras</h4><p> </p><p>Distributed systems #1</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelion]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Favorite Anime]]></description><link>https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/evangelion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/evangelion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[German Contreras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:30:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21BrQc%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F154da9cf-4e6a-4b9a-8e55-ed48143ad658_1280x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21BrQc%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F154da9cf-4e6a-4b9a-8e55-ed48143ad658_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Tokyo, from TV series Evangelion, by <strong>Hideaki Anno</strong></figcaption></figure></div><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2917e650-03b2-4c2c-8a37-d967a89ddb44&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:317.2049,&quot;downloadable&quot;:true,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p>And perhaps the best of all time. </p><p>The series presents a very interesting combination of technology, religion, and ethics, which is not for everybody, because it has a narrative arc that includes angels sent by God to destroy humanity. In an attempt to counter the threat, humans, in a Prometheus-like fashion, build giant robots to destroy the angels and fight God. There could be nothing more sacrilegious or heretical than this.</p><p>At first glance, on the surface, this story is shocking enough for most people, including the non-religious, because there is something in it that touches a very sensitive chord and threatens a fundamental pillar inside their minds and hearts. However, for those of us who have an appreciation for Japanese culture and know a little bit more than just the basic facts, <em>Evangelion</em> is an expression of something much deeper.</p><p>Japan is a country whose integration into Western culture did not happen until the Meiji Restoration in the late nineteenth century. It proceeded at breakneck speed, and it had its baptism of fire when the Japanese navy defeated the Russian fleet in 1905 at the Battle of Tsushima, earning the country a place as a peer in the Western world. But the adoption of Western values, especially those prevalent at the end of the nineteenth century, brought several issues. One of them was an extreme materialistic point of view that, although it allowed the country to advance technologically, also eroded, in a similar fashion to the Western countries, its moral and ethical foundation, hence the concentration camps in Nazi Germany and the horrendous experiments with human subjects conducted by Japanese scientists from Unit 731.</p><p><em>Evangelion</em> is, at a deeper level, an expression of self-destruction, because the way I see Japan today&#8212;having never visited the country, I must clarify&#8212;is that it is a nation in despair, a nation that cannot find a way out because it sealed itself inside an ideological prison whose walls have grown thicker and thicker since the Meiji Restoration. <em>Evangelion</em> presents a way out while depicting the irreversible process that shows how a set of ideas can take over and kill the soul of a great culture.</p><p>Japan has been losing its will to live, in the same way the existentialists in black-and-white post-war films have a stare that cannot find a place upon which to fix its gaze. <em>Evangelion</em>, as a series, shows exactly how this malaise, this process of demoralization, occurs: first in the soul, later in the body, and how the resurrection myth is powerless. The robots, after all, are a desperate attempt to combine human and machine, musing upon ancient myths and legends that scientists try to manipulate in order to create a modern interpretation of the monster in Mary Shelley&#8217;s novel, only to discover that everything has failed.</p><p>For many people, this is the most shocking and perhaps disgusting aspect of the series, because very few understand the veiled references and the cry for help, or the well-deserved punishment humans receive for their inflamed hubristic attitudes. <em>Evangelion</em>, as a TV series, is a masterpiece like no other I have had the privilege to watch. It is exciting, sad, and terrifying at the same time. It is emotionally powerful and psychologically dangerous for those only capable of reading the explicit, almost pornographic message on the surface of pure hatred against God. One has to dive into it, be willing to dissolve into the message, and experience the emotions and suffering by living the story through one of the characters, of which there are plenty, each with their own complexity and pain.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21WYAC%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F3ca24d1f-8149-478b-96cb-db348bf1bad3_1376x752.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WYAC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ca24d1f-8149-478b-96cb-db348bf1bad3_1376x752.jpeg 424w, 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Azuka, from TV series Evangelion, by <strong>Hideaki Anno</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>It is a series that is definitely not for children or even young adults, because its layers run very deep, some of them creating compartments where there is only darkness and fear. So my advice is to watch it with some caution. Enjoy the action, the graphics, and the dialogue; these are especially good. Both words and silences were carefully designed so that one could experience the void and the object, detachment and levity.</p><p><em>Evangelion</em> is my favorite anime series of all time, and I have revisited it several times over the last twenty-five years. But after studying theology, religion, and psychology, it gained an even higher place in my estimation because I can now appreciate its complexity and understand, to some extent, the pain a culture feels when it is impossible to atone&#8212;not for sins committed against others, but against itself. <em>Evangelion</em> is the inescapable pain one feels for a mistake for which there is no return. Progressivism, as a culture, with its several variants, is a slow-acting poison. It is killing Japan, and it is killing the West. It so happens that <em>Evangelion</em> is, so far, its best portrait.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21OQ6n%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F58ea5d73-4e2f-41be-b8ec-0a0d580e4dd8_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OQ6n!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58ea5d73-4e2f-41be-b8ec-0a0d580e4dd8_1280x720.jpeg 424w, 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Misato, from TV series Evangelion, by <strong>Hideaki Anno</strong></figcaption></figure></div><h3>By German Contreras</h3><p>At Fleming Driller on Substack</p><p></p><p>This analysis is part of a series of writings about civilization as a general subject of study; it&#8217;s also a way to explain complex subjects using popular culture as a vehicle. Other writings in the series are more academic and deal with the symbolic world, politics or economics, and I understand they are not exactly easy readings, but Evangelion, as many of the great pieces of art, is at the highest levels both for presenting a difficult theme and controversial ideas in a more digestible form, although this TV series in particular is a cult classic more than a popular anime of the Dragon Ball sort.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, That is the Difference]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Elusive Ingredient]]></description><link>https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/time-that-is-the-difference</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://flemingdriller.substack.com/p/time-that-is-the-difference</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[German Contreras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:03:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://flemingdriller.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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What a good artist achieves is similar to what a great chef does in his best days, at the exact moment in time and space, with the right amount of each ingredient &#8212; that inexplicable sensation that elevates a dish or a painting to the category of the sublime. It transcends beyond explanation and defeats all resistance.</p><p>Very few pieces achieve that perfection &#8212; like the first encounter with a flavor from a master chef&#8217;s dish. Most fall into &#8220;okay,&#8221; a few are well executed, more are great, but only a tiny fraction are actually art &#8212; that intense, overpowering rush that creeps inside our heads, shaking our senses and silencing all arguments. Art banishes words to the realm of the damned. They&#8217;re not allowed in that bright, intense paradise that feels like an eternity while we stand before a choir of angels, levitating.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="iframe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%212a50%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252Fe56f0f77-9fb6-499b-9d47-da9b50c558f1_1024x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2a50!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe56f0f77-9fb6-499b-9d47-da9b50c558f1_1024x1536.png 424w, 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