Survival of the Richest - The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind by Douglas Rushkoff
That’s when it hit me: At least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology. Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the aging process, or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape.
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Article: Survival of the Richest
Article: Survival of the Richest
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
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Well, duh.Mr. G wrote: ↑Thu Jul 12, 2018 4:08 pm Survival of the Richest - The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind by Douglas Rushkoff
That’s when it hit me: At least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology. Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the aging process, or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape.
https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/surviv ... f6cddd0cc1
If you had the money, what would you do after taking a good hard look at all the morons around you?
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
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that's a good article. Inevitable in a culture dominated by Darwinian metaphors.
'Only practice with no gaining idea' ~ Suzuki Roshi
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Nothing wrong with evolution. It's when evolution is contrived as a social philosophy that it becomes grotesque.
Besides though... Evolution is not as simple as Darwin proposed. Apparently learned adaptations do get passed in the genes. How we live does change the course of our species.
Besides though... Evolution is not as simple as Darwin proposed. Apparently learned adaptations do get passed in the genes. How we live does change the course of our species.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
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Darwinian evolution doesn't indicate that humans should not be kind to each other; not in any way or form.
Kindness is for example, understood as tremendously beneficial; in our day and age we know this.
Kindness is for example, understood as tremendously beneficial; in our day and age we know this.