Have Faith (That's it!)

Sunday night here in Austin, I was lucky enough to go to a talk that Professor Jiang gave. He is the guy from Predictive History, and he uses classic books and knowledge from the past to get stuff right and to figure out what's coming. It's pretty amazing. I don't remember how it came into my algorithm, or what the first few things I watched were, but I've been following basically since whatever my first video was. (YouTube @ its most YouTube!) He did a presentation, and that'll probably be up on YouTube (I'll come back to this entry and link it), a fireside chat, a Q+A, and then we had cocktail hour. A lot of the talk could be seen as completely depressing, because he was predicting a Trump third term, predicting the USA taking over Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Latin America down to Colombia. And at some point, there'd be a kind of civil war here. Great. One optimistic part is that he said the new cultural center of America will be centralized, and he thinks it'll be Austin. So,…