Technological salvationism …Why not…? Spiritual suggests a religious connection … Paranormal however runs the gamut from Extraterrestrial to cryptoterrestrial all the way to inter dimensional and pretty much anything else one cares to imagine so why not technological…? However the distraction or intervention humanity does truly need cannot simply be administered like some kind of medical remedy to take effect immediately. Will all our questions be answered…? What about after death…? 🤷🏻♀️🍏🐍🧌Might as well ask where or what were you before you were born…?
Well in America these days the answer seems to be to either spend or shoot all the problems away. There is a “Romantic Paranoia” circulating among the general population that some sort of intervention will take place to save humanity from itself. So why not imagine this salvation coming from a tool that mankind created to serve that very purpose…? Of course we must realize the risks involved as we know very well that any tool can be weaponized.
Once again, a provocative journey of thought. Is 'deconstructionology' a new theology? I have questions! I have to poke you regarding some of your conclusions but you made me think. Saving this for later.
I live in a tiny village in Europe. It used to have an active church and community events based around the catholic calendar. The annual festival was a celebration of life in the village. Everyone knew each other, and visiting the other area villages was a big thing. My companion grew up on a farm in the village; they didn’t have a car and there was no bus. To go shopping in the larger village 4 miles away, they rode on the tractor. Everyone had a bench in front of their house; transportation was walking, and the benches were resting places for them. They also served as places to sit and talk. With the decline of the church, I perceive that the village has lost its soul . With the exception of the extensive family my companion has in the village, it is now little more than a rural subdivision. The village festival has been replaced by hard drinking out of towners in the part time bar/community center. I’ve been to several bigger villages which still have a soul. But here There is a vacuum left by the vacant church. It remains a great place to live, but not a community.
Well said and well spotted! I started reading Rationalist-adjacent blogs a long time ago because those were some clear-thinking and open-minded people, but I find them more and more taken by techno-utopian thought.
But man, where do you find the time to write so many long articles? I can barely skim through a few of what you post without making it a dedicated job.
Secularization didn't just change the symbols. It dissolved the containers and replaced them with individual autonomy. The old structures, extended family, village, tradition, rites of passage, shared accountability, weren't primarily belief systems. They were the ground within which people learned to carry what life brings. What replaced them wasn't better ground. It was no ground at all. The individual is now fully exposed with maximum capability and minimum capacity and no communal structure to help carry what technology cannot solve. Rebuilding that container, not around a belief system or a teacher, but around a verified framework for development, may be the most important work of our time.
Technological salvationism …Why not…? Spiritual suggests a religious connection … Paranormal however runs the gamut from Extraterrestrial to cryptoterrestrial all the way to inter dimensional and pretty much anything else one cares to imagine so why not technological…? However the distraction or intervention humanity does truly need cannot simply be administered like some kind of medical remedy to take effect immediately. Will all our questions be answered…? What about after death…? 🤷🏻♀️🍏🐍🧌Might as well ask where or what were you before you were born…?
Well in America these days the answer seems to be to either spend or shoot all the problems away. There is a “Romantic Paranoia” circulating among the general population that some sort of intervention will take place to save humanity from itself. So why not imagine this salvation coming from a tool that mankind created to serve that very purpose…? Of course we must realize the risks involved as we know very well that any tool can be weaponized.
Once again, a provocative journey of thought. Is 'deconstructionology' a new theology? I have questions! I have to poke you regarding some of your conclusions but you made me think. Saving this for later.
I live in a tiny village in Europe. It used to have an active church and community events based around the catholic calendar. The annual festival was a celebration of life in the village. Everyone knew each other, and visiting the other area villages was a big thing. My companion grew up on a farm in the village; they didn’t have a car and there was no bus. To go shopping in the larger village 4 miles away, they rode on the tractor. Everyone had a bench in front of their house; transportation was walking, and the benches were resting places for them. They also served as places to sit and talk. With the decline of the church, I perceive that the village has lost its soul . With the exception of the extensive family my companion has in the village, it is now little more than a rural subdivision. The village festival has been replaced by hard drinking out of towners in the part time bar/community center. I’ve been to several bigger villages which still have a soul. But here There is a vacuum left by the vacant church. It remains a great place to live, but not a community.
Well said and well spotted! I started reading Rationalist-adjacent blogs a long time ago because those were some clear-thinking and open-minded people, but I find them more and more taken by techno-utopian thought.
But man, where do you find the time to write so many long articles? I can barely skim through a few of what you post without making it a dedicated job.
Great post. I think one finite lifetime in this reality is quite enough.
Secularization didn't just change the symbols. It dissolved the containers and replaced them with individual autonomy. The old structures, extended family, village, tradition, rites of passage, shared accountability, weren't primarily belief systems. They were the ground within which people learned to carry what life brings. What replaced them wasn't better ground. It was no ground at all. The individual is now fully exposed with maximum capability and minimum capacity and no communal structure to help carry what technology cannot solve. Rebuilding that container, not around a belief system or a teacher, but around a verified framework for development, may be the most important work of our time.