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At every level, at every age, at every step, we are removing ourselves from reality step by step. Creating ever more layers between ourselves and anything that might cause actual joy or pain.
I believe that this is one of the reasons why we are seeing a rise in autism numbers. As we distance ourselves from anything of real substance, we lose our ability to understand it, like an autist who can’t understand the emotions of others.
The reverse is true too. The overly emotional don’t know when to stop because they are increasingly removed from real life lessons that would teach them when their sympathy, empathy and emotion reaches dangerous extents.
I don’t know where this will end, but I do know that we are unlikely to advance much as a species if we continue in this way.
There is a theory about The Great Filter: that theory about why we don’t see the universe teeming with alien life despite its infinity. Maybe it is due to rogue AI. Maybe it’s energy entropy. Some believe it is because of innate destructively warlike tendencies.
Perhaps though the reason for our future doom is something closer. Perhaps it is introspection. Perhaps it is narcissism. Perhaps it is the barriers you create between yourself and reality - and thus the path to learning. Perhaps it’s in the palm of your hand right now.
At some point, children are dragged away from their iPads by their parents so that they can sleep & exercise. But in a godless world, who will step in & drag us away when we’ve spent too long staring at our screens? When we’ve forgotten to eat and rest? Who watches the watchmen?
Houllebecq has a line about how there’s a deficit of anecdote- nothing is happening, nobody is doing anything. That said, I tend to think that kids’ lives ar less empty than adults’ now, they’re not being harmed by media as much as we are. They actually talk to real people often.
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