Auron MacIntyre

And what you feel your goals as a human being doesn't really matter.

You're being entirely conditioned for no other reason to serve this accelerating technological progress.

C.S.

Lewis wrote a phenomenal essay called The Abolition of Man back in the 1940s.

And basically he said he predicted that we were going to see the social engineers learn to radically unchange the underlying parts of human nature.

And after they learn to eventually work all of those different elements out of human nature, we will have effectively abolished man because the last generation to have any connection to organic human understanding will be completely gone.

That's why it's so critical for us to understand things in states of being and not just systems anymore.

We have to struggle back for humanity.

We have to fight back against the idea that we can just become these automatons.

And the only way to do that is reconnect to actual ways of being rather than abstract understandings of ideologies or systems.

And that's really something that requires us to scale down, which is what nobody wants to do.

It would mean reducing the size of our civilizations to ones in which we can actually interact, where Dunbar's number matters again, where people aren't just digits on a screen or social media interactions, and we can actually build organic understandings of each other.

But again, right now, more and more, all of our interactions are entirely abstract.

Of course, we saw this, especially after COVID.

You just didn't even see human beings, right?

Everything was Netflix or screens or whatever, and people are continuing to retreat more and more in this way.

Yeah, we have to we have a shattered epistemology.

We have no shared understanding of like how to form truth, how to understand the world around us.

And the only way to reforge that is

seeing each other in real life again, having real experiences, not trying to abstract things, not try to remove things, actually be with people.