In March 2020, the entire modern world was forcibly, aggressively, violently, and completely changed forever. Not because of a virus, but because of the idea…
Tag: narrative
Yet again, it’s simply not good enough to be a healthy, organic, living, breathing, feeling, caring, mistake-making human. Not in the marketplace, not in science and academia, not in the corporate world or big industry. Not in medicine, not in education, not even in the arts. AGI is showing us how small, slow, lumbering, and pathetic we are, and if we don’t address this “problem” it’s curtains, again, for civilization and the species.
It’s interesting to see how quickly the West has been subsumed into manic hysteria over Russia… almost as if right on cue. Who’s cue? Well,…
The stories we live by in a society, and as a civilization, are a cross-pollination of narratives, derived from age-old belief systems, traditions, rituals, religions and literature, tempered and adapted organically by modern epistemology, pedagogy, philosophy, cultural context and the purely experiential. There’s an inherent, and perhaps predictable narrowing, or reduction, of the “allowable” within these structures. And because of an inevitable tendency toward identity and ideology, our struggles individually and socially arise as and when this unconscious mechanism is either unwittingly or deliberately used against us.
As one delves deeper into unraveling the true nature of things, it becomes increasingly evident that nothing about this world defines much in the way of certainty. It’s all theater, variations on themes, recycled myths, stories and narratives, and endless apparent cycles of birth, death and renewal. What do we really know about the truth of anything?