The first step toward reversing our predicament is to recognize that being human is a team sport. We cannot be fully human alone.

memes do not compete for dominance by appealing to our intellect, our compassion, or anything to do with our humanity. They compete to trigger our most automatic impulses.

Humans are defined not by our superior hunting ability so much as by our capacity to communicate, trust, and share.

Prohuman art and culture question the value of pat narratives.

Self-improvement of the transhumanist sort requires that we adopt an entirely functional understanding of who and what we are: all of our abilities can be improved upon and all of our parts are replaceable. Upgradable.

Weirdness crashes boundaries, forcing us to see our complicity in reality creation: we break free of the imposed program and experiment with alternatives.

Without socially positive opportunities to exercise our autonomy, we tend toward self-promotion over self-sacrifice and fixate on personal gain over collective prosperity.

Only service to others gives us the opportunity to experience autonomy and belonging at the same time.

Memes work by provoking fight-or-flight reactions. Those sorts of responses are highly individualist. They’re not prosocial, they’re antisocial.