Hi Steven, humanity is playing out the tower of Babel story all over again. The sad thing is that it seems to me that the incentive structure of this reality is toward ever-increasing centralization and technocracy; this is because both provide power advantages over others, and if one doesn't pursue that then someone else will - it's a race to the bottom. Rene Guenon commented on this as the "solidification" of the world in terms of ages and cycles, that the world will "solidify" and speed up until it reaches a point that it can no longer do so, and then the grand cycle starts over.
Personally, I see nothing that will stop the "Mark of the Beast" CBDC + AI + social credit score dystopian Hell with programmable money and programmed behavior on an individual basis coming very soon, which will result in the greatest loss of individual freedom in human history.
Good stuff, but I think Iran is 'in the game' as well as the ever present Middle eastern Bogeyman just 3 weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon...for the last forty years. And jabbing everything that moved during the assault upon humanity known as Covid as per The Orange Vax Daddy did in the States. And Carlson? CIA Family and MK Ultra'd surely. Who was it that said all the world's a stage?
Perhaps you are right and the chance to put liberty over convenience has lapsed.
Thanks for this "update" of sorts. I am getting into your articles and have ever bought one of your books, "What should philosophy do?" to get a better understanding of "the worldview" which informs your specific insights and your overall take on what is going on.
The "iron cage" might be closing in and progressing towards a fully digital form. But I don't want to be suckered into welcoming it in any way because of its convenience and comfort or whatever other marketing label is used. Understanding the history of how the traditional Judeo- Christian worldview which gave us dignity and true "citizenship" as human beings within nations has been overtaken by materialism and naturalism as supposedly the only "realist" worlcview, and hence the one that we are told we must accept will inevitably be worldview of the future world civilisation and globalist order is not pleasant reading. But I appreciate the "history of philosophy" angle you take to explain how this has happened so far, and how it will likely continue to happen along with the various psyops, nudge units and marketing campaigns that will be used as "the conditioners" proceed, telling us, "There really is no other way . . ."
Hi Steven, humanity is playing out the tower of Babel story all over again. The sad thing is that it seems to me that the incentive structure of this reality is toward ever-increasing centralization and technocracy; this is because both provide power advantages over others, and if one doesn't pursue that then someone else will - it's a race to the bottom. Rene Guenon commented on this as the "solidification" of the world in terms of ages and cycles, that the world will "solidify" and speed up until it reaches a point that it can no longer do so, and then the grand cycle starts over.
Personally, I see nothing that will stop the "Mark of the Beast" CBDC + AI + social credit score dystopian Hell with programmable money and programmed behavior on an individual basis coming very soon, which will result in the greatest loss of individual freedom in human history.
Good stuff, but I think Iran is 'in the game' as well as the ever present Middle eastern Bogeyman just 3 weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon...for the last forty years. And jabbing everything that moved during the assault upon humanity known as Covid as per The Orange Vax Daddy did in the States. And Carlson? CIA Family and MK Ultra'd surely. Who was it that said all the world's a stage?
Perhaps you are right and the chance to put liberty over convenience has lapsed.
Thanks for this "update" of sorts. I am getting into your articles and have ever bought one of your books, "What should philosophy do?" to get a better understanding of "the worldview" which informs your specific insights and your overall take on what is going on.
The "iron cage" might be closing in and progressing towards a fully digital form. But I don't want to be suckered into welcoming it in any way because of its convenience and comfort or whatever other marketing label is used. Understanding the history of how the traditional Judeo- Christian worldview which gave us dignity and true "citizenship" as human beings within nations has been overtaken by materialism and naturalism as supposedly the only "realist" worlcview, and hence the one that we are told we must accept will inevitably be worldview of the future world civilisation and globalist order is not pleasant reading. But I appreciate the "history of philosophy" angle you take to explain how this has happened so far, and how it will likely continue to happen along with the various psyops, nudge units and marketing campaigns that will be used as "the conditioners" proceed, telling us, "There really is no other way . . ."