Do not gaze into the abyss, or the abyss will gaze into thee.
Greg Reese draws from the words of Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as Buddha, George Gurdjieff and other philosophers and religious leaders, to paint a picture of how to keep your thoughts clear and unfettered. Avoid propaganda, as well as deceitful marketing techniques designed to lead you astray and down a tortured path.
This is an ideology gaining in popularity amongst tech billionaires that the world is inevitably heading toward a collapse, and that instead of trying to prevent that collapse, we should rip off the band aid as fast as possible so we can get to the better world on the other side.
While there’s a cold logic to it, it’s a dangerous philosophy that ignores the incalculable human suffering that such a collapse would create. Here’s more from Joe Scott.
