We Are As Gods

Stewart Brand: We are as gods and might as well get good at it. Part of the Whole Earth manifesto.

Title of a 2020 documentary about Brand.

• from Stripe Press!
• Oct07'2025 I just watched it....
  • biggest time allocation was to de-extinction (of mammoths and chestnut trees) evangelism. Made really weird choice of showing lots of criticism of the idea, with no real strong Brand-pitch; it was left like a battle-of-vibes, with him losing.
  • conversely, the Mother of all Demos got about 3seconds, without any direct reference
  • running theme is Brand's involvement in the early days of many scenes. Was the key to
    • find a bunch (or multiple bunches) of people doing something future-oriented/important, and create a hyper-sigil to crystalize attention and group-identity?

Also the title of a 2016 book about the Myrtle Hill commune. ISBN:1610392256 http://www.katedaloz.com/we-are-as-gods Between 1970 and 1974 an untold number of Americans abandoned the city, and the commercialism, and all the inauthentic bourgeois comforts of the Eisenhower-era America of their parents. Instead, they went back to the land.