The Long Holiday

Throughout the book, Christian Kako expresses the idea that we are born now because it’s in the middle of a bell curve spread out over the whole of human history on which all births can be imaginarily tabulated. Pandemics and viral causes were given short shrift in comparison to the more popular and Facebook-friendly social media possibilities of hyperintelligent AI, robot takeover, a supernova cosmically next door, universe-wide vacuum changes, the omnipresent climate change and nuclear war threats. When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged and started to spread across the world like a TikTok sensation, every evening for some time the author wondered if this was the predicted axe for humanity, but it turned out thankfully to not be, or at least it seems that way so far. Perhaps someday, another axe will hit its aim and we better start doing a better job of moving the target.