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oh god, i get it. i was wrong—even "disembodied" traditions like puritanism are deeply embodied: they live in a body of guilt and discipline. even "individualistic" societies like ours are deeply at core a collectivity: we are held together by the collectivity we call the economy
humans have never en masse existed outside of a collectivity. to be human has universally meant being reliant on other humans in some way. this has always been the case, and foreseeably will be. that culture has always lived in a cultural body
embodiment and collectivity is not something to return to. it is inescapable fact of our existence https://t.co/MlUWmrhfeX
meanwhile forgetting that all humans, no matter what, are embodied meanwhile forgetting kindness and attunement to what was already there, in others and themselves meanwhile not open to embodiment looking like a thousand ways beyond a particular self-expressive grounded ideal https://t.co/6YoaRmFtAq
but it does exist. we look around and see individualism, but even in that individualism, we are not individuals. we have been interfacing with the economic AGI called the market, we have been interfacing with the information AGI called social media https://t.co/hLN42ZNiT7
there was a tweet about neuralink and how it follows a pattern of social media, the internet, etc. is reducing the information-permeability of our being; soon, we'd be reduced to mini-nodes in a hyper-cluster. never fully, deeply processing anything, but closer to the hive mind
we live in vast economies populating the grocery stores we’ll visit tomorrow, bureaucracies sourcing the water we’ll drink tonight, and nation-states managing vast territories. fuck if we’re individualistic. if we are, then we are an individualistic collectivity
when societies are individualistic, even in that individualism, we are not individuals, not really. we are still reliant on collectivities organising great resources and managing vast territories. thre is sth that is shaping us, just one that leaves its individuals very unhealthy
the idea of even "disembodied" cultures being deeply embodied from this podcast episode of The Emerald https://t.co/6YoaRmEVKS