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My Hereticon Talk - Spiritual Technology
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“More and more young, intellectually inclined, and politically heterodox thinkers are showing disillusionment with the contemporary faith in technocracy and personal autonomy. They see this combination as having contributed to the fundamentally alienating character of modern Western life. The chipper, distinctly liberal optimism of rationalist cult... See more
Zach Lamb • The Noetic Future of Culture and Brands
We must instead take steps to extract the good from these technologies while sidestepping what’s bad. We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their current dominance of this role; a philosophy that
... See moreCal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
on my mind:
modern spirituality encourages us to DIY our own world of life signifiers, to come up with our own spiritual frameworks involving special diets, meditation schedules, intermittent fasts, escapes to nature, and more.
but to go down this path, we have to really believe, like @antoniogm says that we can improve on a bar mitzvah as a comi... See more
The congregation seeking change through innovation risks opening our social lives to a moral horizon that may deliver a false sense of fullness, a warped conception of humanity, and a flat notion of the yearning of the human spirit.