Death is the default

One of the worst things any of us can believe is that anything is inevitable. We have a tremendous agency to build the things that help us towards a future we want to live in—whether that’s in consumer products, climate, politics etc The body can reject things it finds foreign.

With the emerging ability to improve the embodied experience for all sentient beings, our species is entering a painful adolescent phase. We must realize it is no longer acceptable to coast along on values and purpose inherited from the past, without needing to exercise agency and responsibility to decide what we will work toward. We have to accept... See more