THE EXPEDITION
A Note from the Author
What you see on this site represents a necessary evolution. It is a Changing of the Guard.
The war is over, and the insight now passes into the collective at last - where it naturally belongs. But I can't stay to celebrate. That simply wouldn't be productive. Indeed, that might even do more harm than good.
WHY I AM STEPPING BACK
I have to assume here that you are already broadly aware of what this emerging framework brings to light. But even if you are, there may still be a bit of uncertainty regarding the scale of the events indicated. For most people, it might only be when they look back on it all one day that they will truly begin to appreciate the whole thing, and also begin to understand what it all might have cost. The punishment associated has been extreme and relentless.
I went looking for an answer. So it was all my own fault. But nobody could ever have been prepared for what was eventually found.
That turned out to be just the beginning. I had never even considered what might happen if I actually caught that great beast - and how I might then need to drag it all the way back to the village.
I find myself endlessly explaining this part, because people really don't seem to understand. For years, I labored under a high-compression state of total moral mobilization to get this paradox solved. It succeeded in the end, but only by luck more than skill, and I didn't escape unscathed. I started out as the egg; I ended up as Humpty Dumpty. The resulting obligation basically drove through the middle of my life like a Kenworth driving through a house. In the end there really wasn't much left.
2EQ is upside down in this sense. It is backwards. Everything about it is reversed. And this is because it all came from heading in the exact opposite direction to the general flow of culture and emotional tendency. It turns out the answer was always only going to be found in the one place nobody would ever think to look, and that at least one person would need to go there to bring it back.
It has all been worth it, don't get me wrong. And I am not complaining here. It is simply unbelievable to have stumbled upon something so vast. But it also put my entire life on hold, for decades at a time, and nobody can hold their breath forever. So sooner or later there was always going to be a reckoning here, as all those birds came home to roost, and it seems that time has come.
So there is an obvious paradox here, and people can get a bit confused: we always expect the messenger of higher potential to be a towering pillar of virtue and light. But in the real world, every significant bridge always has a troll that demands your firstborn. And the bigger the gain, the deeper the pain.
This very deep price is also why all those 'accidentally awakened' individuals can never actually deliver what they are pointing at, even though the potential itself is entirely real. The answer was in the problem, not the solution. It means that someone was eventually going to need to show up holding the beast itself, and that person was always going to be torn to shreds as a result. It was a situation that was always going to demand some sort of icebreaker. But doesn't that make a certain kind of sense?
I do not speak from a position of authority about anything. Quite the opposite. I am not offering the solution here - I am delivering the problem at last, the real culprit, naked and in the flesh. But it didn't come cheap, that's all I'm saying. And in practice what this means is that I am now completely disqualified from any sort of public role.
Basically, this relatively simple insight delivered an unexpectedly epic payload, like a comet - and it landed where? Right on top of me.
So just to be clear: whenever I say that 2EQ is epic, I am not saying I am epic. Quite the opposite. It’s not about me at all. I am saying I am nothing in a sense now - just a crater - an empty hole where a person used to be.
This is why I need to step away, or at the very least wait for those who clearly qualify. I am basically worthless in my current high-compression state - like Tom Hanks in Cast Away when the cargo ship finally picks him up. He could barely speak. A period of deep recovery was simply implied.
BACK INTO THE WRECKAGE
The Expedition is the aftermath of all this. It is just what remains for me now - a solo journey of exploration and recovery. I will be wandering back onto the battlefield here, but this time only as a medic, not a soldier. The only point will be to sift through the debris, and maybe to poke around a bit more amongst all the more speculative stuff I never had time to explore as I rushed on by. But mostly, I will simply be searching for bits of poor old Humpty, and trying to put my life back together again.
It has always been regrettable that the relatively simple insight at the core of this paradigm was destined to confront so much psychological resistance, especially when combined with so much ethical impetus, if only because it made tremendous force necessary. I was fighting for my moral life at every point, and also for a world that apparently only I could see coming, which always left me reaching for only the really heavy stuff to pick up and swing.
That ultimately meant stripping away many of the more fascinating, speculative, or deeper implications - and much of the stuff I enjoyed the most. It is a huge territory, and there is much that was collected along the way that has yet to be fully unpacked, and still more that remains unexplored, and unrecorded. But now that the core is safe, anchored in the AI and the structural definitions, I am free to go back. I am no longer chained to the start line here - smoking my tires, but going nowhere. So this release into the collective at last now frees me to do the only thing I am actually good at.
This is what it means to be making this information available in such a robust and comprehensive manner at this point, and all for free. The collective path can now begin, and with that, the individual path has finally ended.
I do not represent 2EQ. I suppose that is what I’m saying. Nobody does. It is bigger than that. And I wouldn’t want any confusion in that regard. It is yours now. Do with it what you will.
That’s why there is a paywall. It is a self-imposed quarantine. It's all going to be very messy. This will be the Director's Cut - unlimited screening for only those with a particular passion for watching a chain-smoking pathologist do gruesome autopsies.
To be clear, then: The Expedition is not a continuation of the path that led here. It is just a kid in a sandpit now. It is not a teaching program; it is just my own personal Skunkworks. The only aim will be to play. Leaving the official map behind, and unburdened by the need to lead, I will just go wherever the wind blows me now.
WHAT YOU GET
This is a one-way broadcast from the lab. I will produce media, in-depth conversations, and essays at my own pace, documenting what I find as I sift through the wreckage and the remaining treasure.
- The Tone: Explorative, uncertain, raw. Less "righteous certainty," more curiosity. Unscripted log entries, uncut and unfiltered. It will be messy, and there will be blood. I always tell people - "You don't want to know what I really think.." But apparently, some people do.
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The Content: Two parallel tracks.
- The Architecture: New insights, commentary on other approaches through the lens of 2EQ, and deep dives into mechanics that didn't make the cut for the public site.
- Subject Zero: I am turning the microscope on myself to document the "Demobilization." Can the machine be turned off? Can someone really come back from such a dark place? I will share the data, the conversations, and the recovery process in real-time.
- The Archive ('Backstage Pass' only): Access to the full historical "Resource Bundle" - the 30-year trail of crash sites, a dozen or so unedited books and manuscripts, various extended essays, and audio rants that emerged along the way. This is for archaeologists only; it is not a user manual.
THE DEAL
I am done trying to save the world. That's your job now. I am just going to explore on my own terms. If you want to look over my shoulder, feel free. All are welcome, provided you understand the territory. I won't be slowing down for those who can't keep up.
Cost: $9/month.
Promise: I will show you what I find. I will not hold your hand.
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