Society is on a downwards trend from what I see.
This is a disclaimer to anyone who follows me based on ties on other sites: the tone of my writing here is quite different from what I would post on Twitter for instance. Which is to say, what I post here isn't cheerful at all about the state of society and the future to come. If you do not want this in your feed, your mind and your life, then please unsubscribe and walk away. I have decided that I also won’t promote my Substack very much for that reason, though I might sometimes refer to it if I find it useful.
If you heavily disagree with what I write, ask yourself this: "Will arguing with this guy about how he is wrong lead to anything constructive?" I am a fairly stubborn person so I won't magically change based on what a person on the internet has to say, though I am willing to concede a few minor points here and there, but not my main thesis regarding civilization.
Which is what exactly? I don't find it a good idea to make this explicit here, since this is a disclaimer post about something that can be really bad for your life. Ideas can literally possess people if they're not careful, and ideas about civilizational collapse and the likes are particularly potent forms of that.
So I won't say more. 1 My point being, you might benefit from my post on somatic hazards, which describes how ideas can hijack your connection with your body. But besides that, the rest of my Substack is fairly bleak, and I know this isn't for everyone.
I have made the decision to make a strict separation between "myself on Twitter" (and similar social media) and my "writing self" such as on Substack, because it has felt like, over and over, I was bringing points about civilizational collapse to people who simply did not want to hear about it, which is understandable. But I also do not want to deny what I see unfolding in the world, so here we are, and you have been warned.
1 My thought is heavily influenced by Darren Allen, whose Substack you can find here. I am not a fan of deferring all my thinking to someone else, but he has a way of articulating the vague intuitions I had regarding society much, much better than I can. If you’re interested in his thinking (which is again, very bleak concerning the state of civilization), you can start with for instance The Technological System.
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2024-10-27