It is human nature to hope. He is mortal, he is the only creature on the planet who lives knowing he is mortal, for him it is amazingly painful. It is called "mortal sickness" and the like. And he wants to get rid of it somehow, to delegate his hope to someone. You can delegate hope to higher powers. Or you can delegate hope to a machine - so to speak, "God from the machine" (18th century - the Enlightenment begins). Or maybe a computer. Why not? Someone needs this. As sung in a song by Okudzhava, whom I did not like and who was very popular in Soviet times, "I need to pray for someone." It was about something else, but I mean that you need to pray for someone all the time. Our famous director is Marlen Khutsiev, in his films "I Am Twenty" (or "Ilyich's Gate" as it is also called) and later "July Rain" - he also said how the Soviet generation, already the fourth after the generation of revolutionaries, pragmatists who fought in the Great Patriotic War, and reformers, - it was very short of money and entertainment, not from this entertainment sickness. Which Kierkegaard spoke about, and which Nietzsche and Dostoevsky spoke about a lot. Something needs to be done about this in the 21st century. "What about a man? - asks Blok. "Behind the roar of steel, in the fire, in the smoke of gunpowder, what fiery distances opened to your gaze?". Before that, speaking of the 19th century, he says: And the man? - he lives without will:
Not him - cars, cities, that is, if we do not answer the question of what is wrong with man, then the situation will be bad. And there is an attempt not to answer. And while we follow the foundations of the West. The basics of the West! - This attempt will dominate the politics of our country with disastrous consequences. Definitely a disaster! Read in full: "Technofascism and Transhumanism" Watch the full program Max | Telegram |.