You're a gifted writer and extremely intelligent but everything you're saying is from your vantage point as a gifted elite at the top of the meritocracy. Of course you don't think theism is the way forward. Of course modern man is too rich to have his nose in a prayer book. I wonder who you're referring to. This would make for a fine entry into your diary, but the disconnect to the real world and real people is huge. Again Elon, you're an elite. Spirituality is the only game in town elites suck at. To further that, Jesus introduced a kind of inreverse meritocracy, which places rich elites at the bottom of the foodchain. So your negative feelings are more than expected and quite human. It doesn't exclude you, but the inner resistance is much more formidable. The only way to approach God is as a child. Compared to God, the intellectual difference between you and a 3-year old is indistinguishable. If you could manage such a perspective, you might have a chance. But elites struggle greatly in this regard. Being an elite is a blessing and a curse. I was raised by elites, and the people I admire the most are elites. Most of the Team Reality heroes of 2020 are elites. My view of them is a combination of respect, admiration, and a touch of sympathy.
Congrats! I expected good writing from you after years of Twitter but this exceeds.
The "marshmallows" comment is spot on. Cozy and wholesome.
I also like how "rich" in "Modern man is too rich to have his nose kept pressed in a prayer book." can be read not only as meaning "affluent" but also as meaning "diverse". And modern man seems unfit for the prayer book in this sense as well. How do we reconcile a single, objective reality with the need for bespoke spirituality?
This is superlative writing. My own recipe for what ails us is to maximize individual liberty, minimize institutions, crush bureaucracy as much as possible. We need to create an anti-Kafka world
Terms like "Right" and "Left" don't really hold much salience for me anymore. The relevant cardinal directions are towards Reality, or towards a Transhuman/anti-Reality chaos.
The latter leads to the destruction of humanity (at the worst) and perpetual human enslavement (at the least).
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you. It has been a while since I've had to shake up my synapses. They've been on/in a steady entropic decline/dissolution into old-age. Not aided by the PTSD arising out of being in a hornets' nest of a woke institution over the past seven years!
I'm fascinated with this statement:
"The Stone Age selected for animism, the Iron Age for messianism." Would you elucidate, please? I am intrigued, because animism is still widespread in Africa, yet manages to co-exist/integrate with Christianity reasonably well. It is a conundrum.
I'm no academic, so please take my grasp to be somewhat limited and intuitive, rather than rooted in study. You may need to draw pictures! 😂
Perhaps Africa shows the way in its ability simply to absorb theisms and live with its paradoxes?
I think it can be shown that the essence of wokeism lies in the mystical belief that all things are united in a single universal consciousness. What we have in wokeism therefore is very likely an early form of what will become the first great planetary religion.
I think less of a future (or present) that is reduced to memes. The future is the past. From cave drawings to memes, what is the difference? Learn to control fire - make simple drawings in otherwise dark caves. Learn to compile the world's knowledge into a globally accessible system - come up with simplistic memes that communicate by being imprecise and rely on communal responses.
I hope, not pray, that humanity can figure out how to be more complete beings rather than adhering to simplistic group think. With so much information available to essentially everyone the opportunities for anyone to live the life of their dreams is, in my humble opinion, reachable.
You're a gifted writer and extremely intelligent but everything you're saying is from your vantage point as a gifted elite at the top of the meritocracy. Of course you don't think theism is the way forward. Of course modern man is too rich to have his nose in a prayer book. I wonder who you're referring to. This would make for a fine entry into your diary, but the disconnect to the real world and real people is huge. Again Elon, you're an elite. Spirituality is the only game in town elites suck at. To further that, Jesus introduced a kind of inreverse meritocracy, which places rich elites at the bottom of the foodchain. So your negative feelings are more than expected and quite human. It doesn't exclude you, but the inner resistance is much more formidable. The only way to approach God is as a child. Compared to God, the intellectual difference between you and a 3-year old is indistinguishable. If you could manage such a perspective, you might have a chance. But elites struggle greatly in this regard. Being an elite is a blessing and a curse. I was raised by elites, and the people I admire the most are elites. Most of the Team Reality heroes of 2020 are elites. My view of them is a combination of respect, admiration, and a touch of sympathy.
Congrats! I expected good writing from you after years of Twitter but this exceeds.
The "marshmallows" comment is spot on. Cozy and wholesome.
I also like how "rich" in "Modern man is too rich to have his nose kept pressed in a prayer book." can be read not only as meaning "affluent" but also as meaning "diverse". And modern man seems unfit for the prayer book in this sense as well. How do we reconcile a single, objective reality with the need for bespoke spirituality?
Looking forward to more!
This is superlative writing. My own recipe for what ails us is to maximize individual liberty, minimize institutions, crush bureaucracy as much as possible. We need to create an anti-Kafka world
Terms like "Right" and "Left" don't really hold much salience for me anymore. The relevant cardinal directions are towards Reality, or towards a Transhuman/anti-Reality chaos.
The latter leads to the destruction of humanity (at the worst) and perpetual human enslavement (at the least).
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you. It has been a while since I've had to shake up my synapses. They've been on/in a steady entropic decline/dissolution into old-age. Not aided by the PTSD arising out of being in a hornets' nest of a woke institution over the past seven years!
I'm fascinated with this statement:
"The Stone Age selected for animism, the Iron Age for messianism." Would you elucidate, please? I am intrigued, because animism is still widespread in Africa, yet manages to co-exist/integrate with Christianity reasonably well. It is a conundrum.
I'm no academic, so please take my grasp to be somewhat limited and intuitive, rather than rooted in study. You may need to draw pictures! 😂
Perhaps Africa shows the way in its ability simply to absorb theisms and live with its paradoxes?
I think it can be shown that the essence of wokeism lies in the mystical belief that all things are united in a single universal consciousness. What we have in wokeism therefore is very likely an early form of what will become the first great planetary religion.
I think less of a future (or present) that is reduced to memes. The future is the past. From cave drawings to memes, what is the difference? Learn to control fire - make simple drawings in otherwise dark caves. Learn to compile the world's knowledge into a globally accessible system - come up with simplistic memes that communicate by being imprecise and rely on communal responses.
I hope, not pray, that humanity can figure out how to be more complete beings rather than adhering to simplistic group think. With so much information available to essentially everyone the opportunities for anyone to live the life of their dreams is, in my humble opinion, reachable.
Great writing. Modern man is too rich to have his nose in a prayer book. Great line.
Grande, magnífico artículo. Congrats