Great article Mattias Desmet. However, I would include that we are not, nor have we ever been Homosapiens, but rather currently being reduced and made to appear as: "Homo-bio-techno-trans-sapiens"
I like your attempt at balance but my leftist friends genuinely believe men can become women while none of my right-wing friends believes the world is flat. Leftists are far more influenced by emotion, they are utopianists, who believe things they WANT to be true. Those on the right have often ended up there because of a realist approach.
Greed has become unchallenged Goddess. People just using one another. There less and less real relationship. They literally been deleted from internet, because of lack of privacy, plenty of false "people". Women become partially mad because of feminism. Men are angry and care about themselvs. Who is altruistic is punished, despised and ridiculed. Because one can't serve God and Greed.
Is there a solution? No. We become evil. And evil materialize through us. We just riding to hell and the music on our Titanic becomes artifical too.
It was definitely a man with soul I met in Oslo Wednesday. I saw you were the only one with critical view on Hamas and the "palestineans" role in the conflict.
I mentioned for you my book "Someone is Playing God". A friend of mine suggested that my other book; "Through the Walls of Thoughts" might be of interest for you. Yesterday a professor in pedagogic psychology congratulated me with important books. Both of them are kind of fact-fiction. Her is link to 40 pages of the first mentioned - if you are interested. In this book I write about WEF, Harari ++.
This excellent piece describes a terminally I'll world that has had all its spiritual/ religious values removed & consequently exists in a vacuous, nihilistic vacuum of hollow people obsessing over material objects & the next dopamine hit to get through days devoid of all meaning & purpose. It defies all natural law & therefore cannot go on much longer. It's the tail end of a civilization.
Ok. Thanks Mattias, I enjoyed how your words have gently affected my thinking and direction. I can visualise ways to change my thoughts for the better. Blur the division from us and them to me and you - in a way. Great real talk. I'm grateful to have such easy access to your thoughts/advice/ponderings and feel incredibly fortunate to have you "in my pocket" and your learning right there so available. How lucky we are. 🌺
I've come to a new suspicion that there actually was some Spiritual wisdom in the early Middle East. How could there not be since they plagiarized so much from pre Abrahamic Western philosophy. But any wisdom therein was hijacked by corrupt tyrants and turned into a tool of oppression.
Not only do I like your handle, 'Eva van Loon', but the way your mind works is to my liking as well. I've written my first Substack post in a year or two and wouldn't mind your comment on it: https://bifurcatio.substack.com/p/a-possible-wild-card
Yuval Noah Harari has a way of sounding highly intellectual and 'cutting-edge' clever but........
..............to me, he is an educated idiot standing on an artificially high moral scaffold.
A Homo devoid of morals, and seemingly ignorant of poetry, the power between words, the value of nuance. Yet his screetchy voice proclaims itself harshly in cracked falsetto (which offends my ears)! My brain is pierced, it stings and then I slump disappointedly, my thwarted anticipation abruptly destroyed.
Another one who interrogates the subject matter by asking HOW?
How, how, how does it work? What happens if we experiment mechanistically with Nature's progeny.....let's break it down, replace bits mechanistically using tools and technology so we can destroy the original and make a prototype transhuman.
I'm going to smoke a cigarette now; it'll be a long wait for the question that really matters. The all-encompassing WHY? The path that leads you to discover your soul and leads you onwards to DEUS.
"In reality, humans don't die because a figure in a black cloak taps them on the shoulder, or because God decreed it, or because mortality is an essential part of some great cosmic plan: Humans always die due to some technical glitch" (Harari, Homo Deus, p.25). "And every technical problem has a technical solution. We don't have to wait for the second coming to overcome death" (Harari, Homo Deus, p.26).
Mattias MeSmet establishes and memorializes himself as far more than a painter, a conceptualist, a cultural examiner par excellence. His perspectives form the third color - projected by a color TV and without which final color, there would be no realistic color at all. Mattias provides a third color to the wheel of understanding.
Great article Mattias Desmet. However, I would include that we are not, nor have we ever been Homosapiens, but rather currently being reduced and made to appear as: "Homo-bio-techno-trans-sapiens"
I like your attempt at balance but my leftist friends genuinely believe men can become women while none of my right-wing friends believes the world is flat. Leftists are far more influenced by emotion, they are utopianists, who believe things they WANT to be true. Those on the right have often ended up there because of a realist approach.
Greed has become unchallenged Goddess. People just using one another. There less and less real relationship. They literally been deleted from internet, because of lack of privacy, plenty of false "people". Women become partially mad because of feminism. Men are angry and care about themselvs. Who is altruistic is punished, despised and ridiculed. Because one can't serve God and Greed.
Is there a solution? No. We become evil. And evil materialize through us. We just riding to hell and the music on our Titanic becomes artifical too.
Matt, every time I read your work I get a flashback to a movie - The Invasion of the Body Snatchers w/ Donald Southerland cut. 1970-80s.
It was definitely a man with soul I met in Oslo Wednesday. I saw you were the only one with critical view on Hamas and the "palestineans" role in the conflict.
I mentioned for you my book "Someone is Playing God". A friend of mine suggested that my other book; "Through the Walls of Thoughts" might be of interest for you. Yesterday a professor in pedagogic psychology congratulated me with important books. Both of them are kind of fact-fiction. Her is link to 40 pages of the first mentioned - if you are interested. In this book I write about WEF, Harari ++.
https://www.norwegianindieagency.com/post/someone-is-playing-god-1
When you work at shitty job, sometimes being pleasant is unbearable. You don’t know her life.
This excellent piece describes a terminally I'll world that has had all its spiritual/ religious values removed & consequently exists in a vacuous, nihilistic vacuum of hollow people obsessing over material objects & the next dopamine hit to get through days devoid of all meaning & purpose. It defies all natural law & therefore cannot go on much longer. It's the tail end of a civilization.
Rationalists are insufferable bores.
You sir, ROCK. Thank you so much!
I can't wait to try a Chai latte with oat milk.
Ok. Thanks Mattias, I enjoyed how your words have gently affected my thinking and direction. I can visualise ways to change my thoughts for the better. Blur the division from us and them to me and you - in a way. Great real talk. I'm grateful to have such easy access to your thoughts/advice/ponderings and feel incredibly fortunate to have you "in my pocket" and your learning right there so available. How lucky we are. 🌺
https://substack.com/@apapacharte/note/c-110534723?r=23jklh&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Be fierce in your resolve to treat everyone as human and with compassion for that is how to ensure you maintain your own humanity.
I've come to a new suspicion that there actually was some Spiritual wisdom in the early Middle East. How could there not be since they plagiarized so much from pre Abrahamic Western philosophy. But any wisdom therein was hijacked by corrupt tyrants and turned into a tool of oppression.
Not only do I like your handle, 'Eva van Loon', but the way your mind works is to my liking as well. I've written my first Substack post in a year or two and wouldn't mind your comment on it: https://bifurcatio.substack.com/p/a-possible-wild-card
Cheers!
Yuval Noah Harari has a way of sounding highly intellectual and 'cutting-edge' clever but........
..............to me, he is an educated idiot standing on an artificially high moral scaffold.
A Homo devoid of morals, and seemingly ignorant of poetry, the power between words, the value of nuance. Yet his screetchy voice proclaims itself harshly in cracked falsetto (which offends my ears)! My brain is pierced, it stings and then I slump disappointedly, my thwarted anticipation abruptly destroyed.
Another one who interrogates the subject matter by asking HOW?
How, how, how does it work? What happens if we experiment mechanistically with Nature's progeny.....let's break it down, replace bits mechanistically using tools and technology so we can destroy the original and make a prototype transhuman.
I'm going to smoke a cigarette now; it'll be a long wait for the question that really matters. The all-encompassing WHY? The path that leads you to discover your soul and leads you onwards to DEUS.
"In reality, humans don't die because a figure in a black cloak taps them on the shoulder, or because God decreed it, or because mortality is an essential part of some great cosmic plan: Humans always die due to some technical glitch" (Harari, Homo Deus, p.25). "And every technical problem has a technical solution. We don't have to wait for the second coming to overcome death" (Harari, Homo Deus, p.26).
Mattias MeSmet establishes and memorializes himself as far more than a painter, a conceptualist, a cultural examiner par excellence. His perspectives form the third color - projected by a color TV and without which final color, there would be no realistic color at all. Mattias provides a third color to the wheel of understanding.