Loud, Present, At Your Door

Into the summer we go.

Jun 10, 2025

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—Tiger Joseph, founder & filmmaker, @tigerjvideo

There’s no turning back now: summer is here, it’s loud, it’s up close and it’s at your door.

Things are getting really PERSONAL even though the themes are global. Palantir wants to gather your data, AI intrudes further into the online experience and immigration riots spark secession debates.

You haven’t gone in search of summer—it has come to YOU.

If you’re trying to understand the energy we’ll be in for the next three months, you have to grasp this core component:

Practically everything in your local environment will be resonating with a collective news headline—but there will be no collective conversation.

Instead, expect a grassroots movement where taboo conversations are sparked because you heard someone else bring up the secret topic.

“OMG, did you just say Palantir? My friend was just talking about her medical data getting harvested…”

And just like that, a revolution happens.

Built piece by piece from unpredictable vectors, fostered by the thing we love the most: quality time with friends and family in local intimate settings.

Bet you didn’t expect the brave new world to be worked out over summer ice cream on the beach boardwalk, huh?

But that’s precisely what will happen. It’s a scale issue. The power is in our hands to shape the direction of things to come.

And the energies this summer tell us that we’ll do it through spontaneous local conversations.

Online neighborhoods count, too, since we spend much of our time with friends there as well.

I know this might be a hard image for some people to grasp. But many of you are spiritual seekers, or even private mystics as you go about your professional life.

You already see hints in your daily life of the old global order breaking down. We no longer live in an era where life happens “out there” as we passively wait and watch.

We are the vessels of alternative history and that’s precisely why data—or even the concept of being human—is such a big deal right now.

It’s up to us if we want a future worth living for.

So let’s dive in and see what raw material the summer is giving us to work with.

Near & Far

Get in the car, we’re going nostalgic for the 90s and early 2000s.

These were times that brought the “summer blockbuster” vibes to a fever pitch.

I remember when Smash Mouth’s “All Star” was a HUGE summer hit in 1999. Released on the cusp of the 21st century, this bouncy pop song was actually a critique of the influencer culture we were headed into fast. Pretty ahead of its time, for a bubblegum radio hit.

Well, that era is gone now. But it helps us understand how to handle the present moment.

All the surfaces and happenings in your local environment will be both a point of arrival and departure. This completely disrupts the old 90s model, where we existed merely as receivers of large deliveries, like a pop song crafted by a large record label.

I can’t underscore enough how furious this trend is about to get. By July, our world will be cruising so fast, because communication models will break down.

Yes, speed can occur during decay. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

Look, pop songs can be spiritual. They can crystallize a moment in time so you remember it 25 years later! Since we don’t have this type of Big Tent culture anymore, it can feel spiritually defeating to keep up with the breakneck pace of change.

But summer 2025 is giving us a new context in which to entertain ourselves and that’s going to provide a lot of comfort, despite the rapid forward movement.

We’re already seeing some musical artists leaning this direction. They’re not recording full length songs or pop albums—merely snippets, as if it’s something you heard from a passing car on your walk to a morning coffee.

That’s very much what June is teaching us. Our summer will be full of snippets, like entertaining and intimate conversations that tell us we’re not alone in riding this mind-bending rollercoaster.

There’s something beautiful and wholesome here. We are connecting with micro moments of joy. It’s up close and personal in our morning walks, in our times with friends and family. This gives us a direct line to the old times we’ll be missing, helping us to see that the past isn’t lost.

You may remember the flavor of a popsicle on a hot day in childhood, but new fleeing flavors tell you that you’re making memories in the present. I think a lot of you are going to find profound joy in hosting at home, going to concerts or eating out. Mundane moments will help you grapple with the weight of a changing world.

This also removes the stress of keeping personal and public life so separate. When we’re not waiting for world events to tell us what’s happening to our souls, then we begin to see our everyday world as a place vibrating with possibility.

Yes, that makes daily life loud, up close and personal.

But it also gives great meaning to the circles of quality time that we are drawing around ourselves.

As the pressures of change lurk on the threshold of our every move—whether we are walking to a shop or waiting for guests at our home BBQ party—we will feel exhilarated at several points this summer.

The stagnancy of winter 2024 will stand in contrast to an urgency that’s driving our smallest actions.

Let’s flesh out some examples of how your local environment might explode with activity.

Touch Grass

I want you to hold an image in your head:

You’re peeking out your front door into the June sunshine, coffee in hand, preparing to take a morning walk.

It’s domestic, it’s bright, it’s just another Wednesday…right?

And then, as you get onto the sidewalk, a dog charges at you as the owner trails behind, tangled up in a leash.

The dog crashes into you, sending coffee everywhere. And the rampage doesn’t end there.

You see a woman with a stroller rapidly duck into a ditch for safety, and then the dog and owner blaze through a busy intersection, nearly getting plowed. Drivers screech to a halt and the sound of car horns is thrown sky high, like a discordant symphony praising the billowy clouds above.

Amid such a familiar scene, there has been a direct injection of chaos.

This is our summer, in essence. Like I said, when it comes to your doorstep, it won’t come quietly.

Now, the immediate reaction to this may be exasperation: “Paul, you’re telling me the pace is not just fast, but also hectic!? Maybe I do want to go back to the stagnant winter of 2024…”

But here’s the thing: through these familiar surfaces (root phrase: family) you will be in touch with the chaos of a changing globe.

This gives you the power to shape your self-concept in radical ways. You’re a an all-star in your own reality, because reality is now YOU.

The old transmission model is breaking down, where you were just someone sitting in the stadium, watching the world go by, numb and detached.

Go watch that Smash Mouth video again. Pure chaos…but everyone was having fun. They made friends with the madness. It’s a backyard BBQ in the suburbs that goes sideways. The band is playing in the grass as the house goes up in flames—and the lead singer has to go rescue a dog left inside. That sends him on a journey through his local environment, which feels new and alive.

Sure, people will be talking about AI, war, tariffs, Biden’s cancer and other calamities that remain to be seen.

Yet it’s not your responsibility to manage your perception of those events by being “an informed citizen tuning into the world broadcast.” That’s the old delivery model. You’re not just a node in the system now. You’re a vector, too.

The old system just needed you to be a repository for information. It needed you to tune into the 24/7 broadcast in the same way as everyone else. Your morning routine in Iowa was similar to the one in Maine and New Mexico. It was a beautiful time in pop culture but also highly controlled.

The new system is built on the actions you take with fluid information.

What we are receiving this summer is a new understanding of scale. So the strategies I’m trying to give you here are based on attuning your perception to a very local radius, which takes more off your plate and destresses you.

It helps you identify immediate small actions you can take, knowing they will ripple and scale up to bigger outcomes.

If you want to fight AI, for example, you may have a vector through your personal social media account and your current employer. The energy isn’t saying: “Go organize a million-person march on Washington DC, to let our leaders know that AI needs limits!”

Again, different era, different strategies.

So instead of chasing after your problems, like a shaggy dog that has made a mess of your morning, it’s better to bring your attention back to the present.

You’re still here and so is your neighborhood and the cast of characters within it.

You’ve all been shaken and stirred—but rather than feel that something is lost, you feel that your environment has been reconfigured.

You may take a different route on your walk that morning, covered in coffee now. But your memories live on in parallel. There’s the corner where your grandma gave you an ice cream. There’s the cafe where you had a summer date. Like a holographic projection, you can almost touch the past but not quite.

Reality may feel surreal, but you are comforted by knowing that the past smiles on you as you make history in the present. That should feel extremely powerful and inspiring. We don’t always have seasons like this, where the unconscious just erupts with raw data.

Sometimes we just blank out when reflecting on the past, as if it never occurred, you know? Not this summer. Moments feel up close and personal, as old impressions rush in to support chaotic new impressions. Like a waking dream, life lived in stereo sound.

Reassuring in a strange way, isn’t it?

Let’s keep going.

A Day In The Life

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This holographic stacking is destined to give a rather interdimensional experience to the next three months.

It could feel like a simple day at the community pool turns into a portal.

This is going to be extremely helpful for understanding the future. It may seem that the world is racing towards a vague horizon, and at such a speed that you’re challenged to comprehend what’s happening in real time.

But as your perception dances on the razor’s edge in your local environment, you will be able to “see around the curve” so to speak.

You may not be able to avoid the next shaggy dog running out of control in your corner of paradise.

But it will be a paradise for you nonetheless, because you’ll understand that when the past is living in parallel to the present, then the future too is already understood.

I call it “being nostalgic for things that haven’t happened yet.”

Nostalgia for the future.

Visionary experiences will be on tap, formed in an instant in your mind’s eye, as you get the kids ready for school or sit down to answer some emails.

Moments may go by extremely fast. You feel transported into the afternoon.

In-between spaces give you a collage of what the future holds.

A lot of people now want to paint some overly futuristic version of where we are headed as a society, and it’s true that a technological revolution is upon us.

But aesthetically, I’m not sure we have figured out a collective vision for how it will “look.”

I’m doubting a flying car utopia as much as I’m doubting a robot overlord dystopia.

Instead, I’m predicting a patchwork where certain processes in your daily life feel a little wonky while you return to roots in other ways.

When you trust that these good things will never leave, it will feel that technological and social revolutions are in service to US.

Any kind of revolution that tries to make people feel negative emotions like guilt or shame or fear will not work very effectively. People will reject them quickly, in part because they will have faith in a better future.

A surreal daily life will make people FIGHT for their families and well being.

Yes, civil disobedience may rise. And there will be riots or protests you do or don’t agree with.

You may encounter or witness pockets of intensity that threaten to spread like wildfire and destabilize your reality, like an out of control dog.

But the chaos will be yours to shape, even as it seeks you out.

If you acknowledge it as the spice of life, then you remove the power from it to become some monstrous omen of war that puts an end to your summer hopes.

And so I believe there will be a “safety net” aspect to this summer.

The chaos won’t take you out. It’s merely seeking you out. It wants to deliver a new surreal reality, one that gives you more power. Because now you are not just a receiver of the future—you are a broadcaster of the future, too.

You have a say in where things are going, right from your front door.

Another good starting point is my ebook: “Energy Is A Story.”

—Tiger Joseph, founder & filmmaker, @tigerjvideo

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