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The Great Election: Why the Future Is Being Voted on Now — With or Without You

6 min readJun 7, 2025

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There’s a strange, electric feeling in the air — like standing on a high ridge between storms. Beneath the noise of politics and the churn of markets, something deeper is shifting. We’re not just living through an era of change. We are living through a change of era.

For decades, the future has been something we prepared for: a destination you could plan your retirement around, insure your business against, or train your kids to outperform. But what happens when the future stops behaving like an extension of the past?

What happens when it becomes something else entirely?

Welcome to what we’re calling The Great Election — not of political parties, but of paradigms. Not about who will govern us, but what reality we’re going to inhabit next.

Because whether we like it or not, we are already in the middle of a planetary vote. And the ballots aren’t cast with paper or pixels. They’re cast with our choices, our narratives, our systems, our attention — and our courage.

📉 The Three Horizons and the Fractured Now

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Ernesto van Peborgh
Ernesto van Peborgh

Written by Ernesto van Peborgh

Entrepreneur, writer, filmmaker, Harvard MBA. Builder of systemic interactive networks for knowledge management.

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