To have been young in the Holocene is to have carried, however briefly, the illusion of continuity.
To age into the Anthropocene is to watch that continuity break appart — not all at once, but in increments too slow to alarm, too brutal to ignore. It is not just a change in conditions. It is a loss of collective orientation infrastructure.
We were raised inside a stable climate niche — not as data, but as embodied atmosphere: seasons as rhythm, ecosystems as backdrop, weather as inconvenience. Stability was not named because it did not need to be. It was the stage, not the script.
Now the stage shifts underfoot. Not with drama, but with drift. Gradual disalignment. A mismatch between memory and condition. Between what our systems expect and what the world now provides.
This temporal split is not just environmental. It is epistemic.
We hold frameworks trained on a climate that no longer exists. We make decisions with instincts shaped by an expired Earth.
The Bureau names this as a form of perceptual lag. A cross-temporal condition. We are structurally miscalibrated — legacy logics meeting non-linear emergence.
To know this is not paralysis. It is threshold.
We are the hinge generation.
The last to remember stability.
The first to live without it.
The work now is not only to grieve the Holocene as a lost world, nor to script the Anthropocene as destiny.
It is to build the capacities to stand within the split — and move with it.
Not clear.
But oriented.
The Bureau refers to an ongoing, below-the-radar project developed by W&G. Previously held in latency, it is now beginning to surface and receive feedback under select conditions. For context or conversation, please reach out directly.