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I highly recommend checking out Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur, he’s got a fantastic, accessible breakdown of the theory and the logistics behind it. It’s one of those ideas that makes you realize how small our current imagination of “renewable energy” really is.

Enjoy the rabbit hole, star lifting is one of those concepts that instantly expands your sense of what’s possible once a civilization reaches stellar-engineering scale.

universe from unraveling entirely, a quiet defiance of the heat death.

as the extropic counterforce to entropy. Every living biosphere contributing to a kind of cosmic Lifestream, an interconnected flow of organized energy pushing back against decay. Over trillions of years and trillions of terraformed worlds, that cumulative extropic pressure might be what keeps the

Why escape our sun when we can responsibly steward it instead, with star lifting? We’ll have the capability to manage stellar evolution long before the sun ever goes supernova. Personally, I’ve always seen life itself, not just human life, but life as a universal phenomenon,

And today’s reactionaries claim to be saving “Western civilization” while rejecting the very Enlightenment humanism that defines it.

The Confederates claimed to be preserving the Founders’ legacy even as they built a slave empire. The segregationists of the 1950s called themselves defenders of “freedom” against federal “tyranny.”

and the preservation of privilege. They quote the Constitution while working to gut the Enlightenment that wrote it. You can trace the lineage of this deceit all the way back. The Loyalists of 1776 claimed to be the true patriots defending tradition against “dangerous radicals.”

The measure of our species isn’t how much we can take from the world, but how much we can give back before we’re gone.

Gaia doesn’t die. She rebalances, rebuilds, and reroutes the experiment. The Lifestream keeps flowing. Like George Carlin said, it's humanity that's fucked. Survival isn’t our birthright, it’s our test. The Great Filter isn’t about technology or power, it’s about wisdom.

It is a declaration that the future will be one of landlords and tenants, of owners and dispossessed. This path is monstrous because it uses the language of liberation to build a cage.

and either way, we do not owe them our lives. Because if they’re right, we need redistribution and liberation infrastructure. And if they’re lying, we need accountability before another crash wipes out what’s left of public trust.

In that case, they’re manufacturing market bubbles and political cover while taking in billions from investors and governments who believe the automation wave is inevitable. Either way, it’s exploitation of belief, of workers, of society’s imagination. Either they are lying, or they mean it,