Fear of the Machine

Individualism is important, even vital, I certainly have benefited from it creatively, but it seems to me that too often individualism is hypertrophied by selfish and fearful men, who are afraid of the machine, afraid of the logic of evolution, afraid of monumental religion and science, afraid of divine cosmic order, afraid that this larger order may rearrange their selfish and even nefarious schemes. We do not always have a principled defense of the individual.

This seems to at least partially come from seeking the truth from only one way of thinking; why can't a thinker use reason, empiricism, irrationalism and intuition, all of them, in seeking the truth? I never agreed to the philosophical battles between these systems with one cutting off the other. We should not be one-eyed, we should be four-eyed in seeking the truth.

We don't need to have empires to believe in the machine, evolution, monumental religion and science, or the cosmic order, we don't need to give up individualism, we don't need to end up with Hitler or Stalin or imperial global corporations, we don't even need to give up the inner individual voice, when we believe in these things. Fearful men scare us away from cosmic order, clinging to their selfish and sometimes nefarious schemes for power, fearful of losing themselves in something bigger than themselves.

We are evolving to Godhood in the cosmos, this is the logic of evolution, this is cosmic order, this is the monumental view, and we don't need imperial dictatorships to direct us. Many groups, many small states, protected by a light federalism, guided by evolutionary religion and science---this is the way to fearlessly face the future, grounded in the sacred.