Rapid advance will be disorienting even when the effects are much more positive then the ones offered by most tech development today. Mid 18th. century to mid 20th century there is a burst of rapid tech advance never seen before in history. In the same lifetime we go from first flight to moon missions, or from horse drawn carriages to trains and cars. Generations see improving conditions. But what’s the feeling, especially turn of the 19th century into the 20th? Quite often existential angst, misery, dread, the alienation of the urban environment, the sense of old connections dying. Look at the buildings, manners, clothing of the 1890s and it’s magnificent. Read literature from the 1890s and it’s all miserable and doom laden.
I feel a bit like a rabbit staring at the headlights of an oncoming car and wondering if I'll be able to jump out of its way in time.....The sense of permanent apprehension accompanying the Covid years appears to have morphed into something else, less tangible.
I think that’s a pervasive feeling-the issue is whether you have it about real fears or imaginary ones. I’d say that’s a defining difference between Populism and Globalism. Populism is the responsible to real world, obvious, traditional concerns with a desire for sane solutions. Globslism is a checklist of imaginary fears united with novel and disastrous solutions. Our tech is at the stage now where errors can be existential threats, so that dread has some foundation. And even more foundation when you look at the character of the ruling class.
I would hope for a natural pushback to this onslaught of technology; something to brake and discipline it... like rust.
Rapid advance will be disorienting even when the effects are much more positive then the ones offered by most tech development today. Mid 18th. century to mid 20th century there is a burst of rapid tech advance never seen before in history. In the same lifetime we go from first flight to moon missions, or from horse drawn carriages to trains and cars. Generations see improving conditions. But what’s the feeling, especially turn of the 19th century into the 20th? Quite often existential angst, misery, dread, the alienation of the urban environment, the sense of old connections dying. Look at the buildings, manners, clothing of the 1890s and it’s magnificent. Read literature from the 1890s and it’s all miserable and doom laden.
I feel a bit like a rabbit staring at the headlights of an oncoming car and wondering if I'll be able to jump out of its way in time.....The sense of permanent apprehension accompanying the Covid years appears to have morphed into something else, less tangible.
I think that’s a pervasive feeling-the issue is whether you have it about real fears or imaginary ones. I’d say that’s a defining difference between Populism and Globalism. Populism is the responsible to real world, obvious, traditional concerns with a desire for sane solutions. Globslism is a checklist of imaginary fears united with novel and disastrous solutions. Our tech is at the stage now where errors can be existential threats, so that dread has some foundation. And even more foundation when you look at the character of the ruling class.
Steiner, on the capacity of vaccines to vacate the soul. Some hundred years ago he gave this warning.
https://archive.org/details/american-vetrans