“Once people recognize that AI is built on the theft of our commonwealth, an inescapable moral conclusion is that the wealth it generates rightly belongs, in significant part, to all of us. This calls for a massive response based on a foundation of collective moral outrage.” — Jeremy Lent in jeremylent.substack.com/p/ai…
“Many non-Western people still do not comprehend the full implications of our secular concept of nature. They believe that Western science may help them to control their affairs more effectively, but they have not always realised what this means for their form of the sacred—or indeed for the future of Planet Earth.” — Armstrong, Karen. Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Continue Reading
“The American anthropologist David Abram believes that our modern Western focus on the “inner world” and the Christian idea of a supernatural heaven are both results of a profound psychic change.” — Armstrong, Karen. Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World (p. 8). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2023. Kindle Edition. Yes, it’s called gnosticism. The West has Continue Reading
“It’s also, I think, the real difference between these two movies. What Wink understood, and what Brand New Day accidentally demonstrates, is that the Powers are at their most dangerous not when they’re being debated but when they’ve stopped being named at all. The Dark Knight forces its surveillance machine into the light and makes both its hero and its Continue Reading
“When, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the first Western explorers in Australia, Africa and the Americas watched a shaman entering a trance state, they assumed he was experiencing the “supernatural” or exploring his “inner world.” But the shaman did not encounter gods, nor was he making an interior spiritual journey. Rather, he was acting as an intermediary Continue Reading