Packy McCormick explores the improbability and promise of being alive on Earth in 2025, challenging readers to consider how they want to spend their “one-in-ten-to-the-35th” chance to exist and shape the world for the better.
Arguing that the divisions within the “miracle tribe” of people currently alive on Earth in 2025 risk distracting from the potential for global cooperation and collaboration, he urges readers to consider the competition against those who have lived in the past or will live in the future, and against entropy and irrelevance.
Calling for a rejection of short-termism and a refocus on the bigger picture, he suggests that the technologies and advancements of today have the potential to solve global challenges and improve lives, urging a collective focus on winning “so bigly that our winning reverberates through spacetime.” - This piece explores the concept of globalism and proposes the idea of “Earthism,” emphasizing cooperation and collaboration across nations and tribes, advocating for the potential of humanity to achieve extraordinary things and make a lasting impact on the world and beyond.
