no, you're going to the most extreme polarized positions here over and over again. it's bad rhetorical strategy unless you just want a knife fight.
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Oh, we need to innovate for sure. My point is that existing systems my seem old to us as individuals, but they are actually new in terms of human history. Western civilization has been on a trajectory of atomization for 1000 years. All that is bound to collapse eventually.
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People tend to think that modern Western civilization is all that ever was, and rarely zoom out to see the grand cycles in history or imagine how someone 1000 years ago perceived reality. It's a Western cultural tendency to favor spatial empathy and devalue
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Faustian civilization is fueled by a form of sky daddy worship that sublimated into a worship of reason, measurement, and progress, which emphasizes technology. Most civilizations throughout history didn't have this cosmology. All our thoughts are biased by this.
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'biased towards shit that works' is a pretty acceptable bias, tbh
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Are you saying that all the past Great civilizations, Greeks, Egyptian, Hindu, Mayan, Chinese, etc didn't work? They had profoundly different worldviews and survived longer than the modern West.
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They're mostly dead, tho.
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And you think we won't be? We are on a trajectory to burn out faster than any of them. So in doing what works, we should be learning from patterns in history, not intentionally throwing ourselves off the cliff because all the cool kids are doing it.
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This is pure epistemological arrogance. People in tech tend to believe that they can reach transcendance, while being painfully ignorant that they are just playing out mythological archetypes that manifested in different cultures throughout history.
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