We Are Afraid To Be Better
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We Are Afraid To Be Better
our troubles are driven by one or all of these factors: Biology and the expansion of the human population A culture of domination and exploitation Rapacious capitalism and the blind pursuit of profit Runaway technological development Shortsighted individual psychology, driven by Paleolithic impulses
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
Under scientism, humans are just robots running programs—either the ones dictated by our genes, or destructive pathogens like spirituality. However, by refusing to understand how meaning-making is a subtle community project related to the ways we live together, this orthodox scientism denies any scheme of things where human agency—hand in hand with
... See moreDouglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Since modernity’s dawn, we’ve been touting one threat or another. I suppose this is the backside of progress. We cannot progress without some nightmare of demise.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
I’ve always felt hope when writing about our struggles at the individual level, and I feel hope in this series too as we look at what’s going on a few floors up on the elevator. But we have a pretty daunting task in front of us—because innate tribalism is only the beginning of what we’re contending with today. Somewhere down the line of human histo... See more