Golems have infected the societies’ vital organs – their institutions – impeding their ability to function properly and causing a mass crisis of trust.
The Solution:
- To get out of a downward spiral of confusion and fear, a society needs an upward spiral of awareness and courage. In a super high-tech era like ours, entering the “bad times” phase of the merry-go-round is a scary prospect.
- We live in a time of magical technology, and the power of the human species grows more godlike every year.
- This power is a double-edged sword, paving one road to utopia and another to dystopia.
- As we move into the deeply uncertain future, there’s never been a more critical time to have our wits about us.
- Exponential technology has given us countless gifts, but in the frenzy, we’re forgetting the most important lesson of all: the worst of our nature never lies far beneath the surface.
- We can’t afford to get ourselves from foolish to wise the usual way, via bad times.
- Somehow, we have to figure out how to become wise people directly.
