Maverick Philosopher

The Ultimate Replacement

I am not referring to the ethno-masochistic self-replacement of whites who have lost their 'mojo,' but the replacement of humanity by soulless robots. I speak not merely of the replacement of a uniquely clever species of land mammal. I speak of the erasure of spirit in the material world by the elimination of those spirits in animal bodies that we are. And to make the dark thought darker: there may be little or nothing we can do about it. Our technology has a life of its own and is re-creating us in its own image. What was created by us to serve us will master and then replace us.

Filed under: Dark Thoughts

A Warning from Elon Musk

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There is no political solution, not only for the reasons that Musk gives, but also because it is not the best who rise in politics but often the very worst.  That is certainly true in the USA at present.  The current administration is characterized by blatant mendacity, corruption, sheer stupidity, and mental incompetence.

Technology is not Wisdom

A short column by Victor Davis Hanson.  It nicely complements what I said last night about the widespread paucity of phronesis and the obsession with the calculable.