Mundus sine caesaribus

After so long of grey and rain, there is something quite glorious about a blue sky.

There is also something quite revolutionary about BlueSky and its founder, Jay Graber, a young woman who knows how to rock a boat with persistence and signalling.

At the SXSW event overnight, she wore a black T-shirt with the caption, Mundus sine caesaribus. This means A world without Caesar’s. 

The owner of Meta and its various platforms wore a similarly styled T-shirt with the caption Aut Zuck aut nihil, which means either Zuck or nothing, a play on Caesar’s comment, either Caesar or nothing.

After thousands of years of Caesars – Roman ones, Russian ones, orange ones, African ones, Israeli ones, Iranian ones… the world does not need another Caesar.  

Not another captain. Not another table full of XY’s. 

Not a government or senate full of XY’s. 

Caesar has had his day.

Interestingly, it was Aristotle who proposed that all embryos are meant to develop as male and it was lack of heat that ‘hindered’ development and resulted in the ‘inferior’ female.

Here we are, nearly 2500 years later, even with the science clear, tangled in that dominant theory as a lived experience.

All of our philosophy, all of our history, our science…written with the XY hand, holding the XY worldview. The bias is unable to be seen by even the most brilliant XY’s. 

The XY’s gather at the big tables, making the most consequential decisions about the future of humanity, thinking that the same worldview that created the problems life faces can be solved with the same worldview. Foolishness.

Mundus sine caesaribus.

Photo March 11 2025, Article written March 11th 2025