Great stuff to help me fathom the state at which we are in.
We have the technology and resources to run things beautifully.
But still war persists. Corruption persists.
When will humanity make the choice for truth?
Can we handle the truth?
Can a doctor know that he's been injecting toxins into people for decades and be ok with it?
I heard an interview with a neuroscientist that said when he got into graduate school in the 90s, they thought the study of consciousness was not worth it.
Wow, 3 decades ago, scientists of the brain thought that consciousness was something dumb?!
In my years I would see the future as either scary or great. Heaven or hell.
These days, I just see an absurd future. Is that me giving up?
I suppose it is because like you and others here, we have seen times when humanity said one thing and did another.
I hope this time with the study of consciousness in mind we can prevent further insanity.
An excellent article. Although a student of history, I never really drew these parallels with our time, but it makes sense. The speed of technology and its effects on humankind need to be consumed at arm's length to lessen some of the disorienting pulses it unleashes. I find some solace in the fact that the smart phone generation, in now becoming parents, seem to be rebelling a bit at the speed and the influence of changes that the internet and social media has wrought. AI now confronts us with the potential for tectonic changes that seem to echo the same things felt during these vertigo years you have so eloquently described. I am writing a piece about defining our humanness now before AI invades the realm of our self formed reality. I have a better sense of why I was moved to begin writing it.
Great stuff to help me fathom the state at which we are in.
We have the technology and resources to run things beautifully.
But still war persists. Corruption persists.
When will humanity make the choice for truth?
Can we handle the truth?
Can a doctor know that he's been injecting toxins into people for decades and be ok with it?
I heard an interview with a neuroscientist that said when he got into graduate school in the 90s, they thought the study of consciousness was not worth it.
Wow, 3 decades ago, scientists of the brain thought that consciousness was something dumb?!
In my years I would see the future as either scary or great. Heaven or hell.
These days, I just see an absurd future. Is that me giving up?
I suppose it is because like you and others here, we have seen times when humanity said one thing and did another.
I hope this time with the study of consciousness in mind we can prevent further insanity.
It's been insane enough for decades.
An excellent article. Although a student of history, I never really drew these parallels with our time, but it makes sense. The speed of technology and its effects on humankind need to be consumed at arm's length to lessen some of the disorienting pulses it unleashes. I find some solace in the fact that the smart phone generation, in now becoming parents, seem to be rebelling a bit at the speed and the influence of changes that the internet and social media has wrought. AI now confronts us with the potential for tectonic changes that seem to echo the same things felt during these vertigo years you have so eloquently described. I am writing a piece about defining our humanness now before AI invades the realm of our self formed reality. I have a better sense of why I was moved to begin writing it.
That's Philipp Blom - the extra P in his first name makes it easier to search for his book. :)
Oh good catch, fixed that typo