It is July 2026 and for this month the Spirit of ‘76 theme is Future. We have covered Stoicism, History, Religion, War, Tyranny, and Liberty, so we are going in a new direction with a focus on the Future. This will be a detour from politics for a month and follow a more philosophical path.
“Future” is the dimension of time that has not yet happened—the open horizon of events, experiences, and possibilities that may come to be. Unlike the past, which is fixed by what has occurred, the future is characterized by uncertainty and projection: we anticipate it, plan for it, fear it, and hope for it, but we never encounter it directly except as it becomes the present. Philosophically, debates about the future ask whether it already exists in some sense (as in “block universe” views of time) or whether it is genuinely undetermined, shaped by chance, laws of nature, and human choice. In everyday life, the future is the name we give to what we are moving toward—and to what our decisions, expectations, and imagination constantly bring into view.
The Future is where we keep our goals, our plans, our hopes, and our dreams. It’s anticipated. It’s predicted. It’s feared. It’s foreboding. The Future is in our heads. We always move towards it, but we never actually get to the Future. The Future is science fiction. The Future is now. The Future is what we make it. The Future will make us. The Future will end us. The Future will change things from the way they are now. The Future is close. The Future is far away. The Future is why we do politics.
Techtopia is the eighth single from the Spirit of ‘76 album. The track is a digital trip into a futuristic city, populated by autonomous entities and cyber experiences. It’s progressive, expressive, recursive, and subversive. This song will inspire you to dance like a robot.
Thinking Thursdays Schedule in July
| July 2nd, 2026 | Liberty at 250: A Living Project, Not a Finished Promise |
| July 9th, 2026 | From Signals to Systems: How Futurists Map What Comes Next |
| July 16th, 2026 | Are We Living in a Simulation? Philosophical Stakes Beyond Science Fiction |
| July 23rd, 2026 | Futures Already Written? Time, Illusion, and Openness |
| July 30th, 2026 | Will Machines Ever Truly Wake Up? |
Focusing on the Future is how we imagine and create what is to come.
Thank you for reading,
Jared Endicott
Realizing News 
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