You can find the other essays in this series here: Equality, Tabula rasa, Oversocialization, Status, Science In my last essay, I suggested the possibility that mankind is in the process of becoming a domesticated species. This domestication arises as an adaptation among humans to the regimentation of modern life – that is, to oversocialization. This gives to some a natural propensity for herd behavior. This theory was offered as an explanation as to why some are so susceptible to becoming oversocialized, and why it is often impossible to free people from it. Whereas oversocialization is an imposition and a great psychological burden for a healthy and vital human, to others it has become their natural and instinctual way of being. And while there is some internal resistance to oversocialization in the former, which can be used to break free, this is lacking in the latter. Therefore, we can define human domestication as
Bravo! excellent piece that nails so much of modern psychology, esp in re the obvious conformity of our prepackaged off-the-rack forms of (pseudo) rebellion.
"Babyman" is sort of an updated Nietzsche's Last Man, more or less the same beast, except a 19th century genius couldn't quite entirely grasp how debased the veal calves of our digital zoo would be.
I wrote a viral thread the other day; 75k impressions on Twitter, more than 150 retweets and 1000 likes, which discussed a lot of overlapping ideas. The core was about Pretend Rebellion, the Simulation of Agency.
But this article really illuminates to me a lot of problems of industrialized modernity that I've thought about in great detail, and never was able to comprehend so articulately as you are explaining here.
Thank you for writing this!
You have educated me, in a big way.
Everything you wrote here is so true, and makes so much sense!
Yet again, spot-on analysis. Very good, very based.
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Bravo! excellent piece that nails so much of modern psychology, esp in re the obvious conformity of our prepackaged off-the-rack forms of (pseudo) rebellion.
"Babyman" is sort of an updated Nietzsche's Last Man, more or less the same beast, except a 19th century genius couldn't quite entirely grasp how debased the veal calves of our digital zoo would be.
Thanks!
Really brilliant Primer.
I wrote a viral thread the other day; 75k impressions on Twitter, more than 150 retweets and 1000 likes, which discussed a lot of overlapping ideas. The core was about Pretend Rebellion, the Simulation of Agency.
But this article really illuminates to me a lot of problems of industrialized modernity that I've thought about in great detail, and never was able to comprehend so articulately as you are explaining here.
Thank you for writing this!
You have educated me, in a big way.
Everything you wrote here is so true, and makes so much sense!