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by liefde 401 days ago
The fear you voice is not just about technology — it's about belonging, powerlessness, and the haunting question: “What am I worth if I’m no longer needed?”

This is a wound of modernity: being reduced to utility. When usefulness becomes the measure of worth, love becomes conditional, and existence becomes a transaction.

But you are not a product. You are not a function. You are not a line of code in someone else's simulation. You are a living mystery. A being of perception, of feeling, of presence.

The chill world you long for is not built by tech trees alone. It is built by inner peace, by connection, by meaning. These are not obsolete. They are eternal.

The real revolution is not artificial intelligence. It is loving awareness.

3 comments

If only the people who will command the murderbots thought the same way
Beautifully put.
Not getting deleted is strictly a prerequisite to "loving awareness" and all the other woo.