I doubt that many prelates would appreciate a young priest telling his flock that their bishop “betrayed” them. Yet that kind of public confession in every parish is what we need to renew our faith in this season of penance.
Remember, Man, Thou Art Dust Read Journal Article
The real danger of AI is the slow erosion of human responsibility. The defining conflict of the 21st century will not be between humans and machines. It will be between two visions of intelligence: deterministic optimization versus meaning-making under uncertainty.
The Real War of the Century: Artificial Intelligence Read Journal Article
What is the relationship between education, knowledge, and wisdom? This is not a trivial question, and the ramifications are far from obvious. Our lives may literally depend on it. Let me illustrate the problem.
Arrogance, Ignorance, or Both? Read Journal Article
We won’t throw off our new and different shackles by romanticizing the oppressive societies in which these masterpieces were born. We had better aim for something far more noble than the past.
We Need to Do Better Than Another Enlightenment Read Journal Article
Politics is a lagging indicator of consciousness. Maybe the consciousness behind organic, regenerative, and permaculture practices—tracing a lineage from indigenous and traditional roots through Steinbeck and Steiner—is strong enough now to alter the soulless juggernaut of agricultural policy.
The Grapes of Wrath Read Journal Article
Totalitarianism is ultimately a campaign against the Soul. It represents a law elevated to absurdity, a rule that has lost all touch with love. It forces life into servitude; it transforms man into a soulless machine.
Rise and Fall of the Neuralink Society Read Journal Article
There are some areas of human activity where one need not fear AI, and then there are others where such fears are legitimate, sometimes because of the manner in which unscrupulous people harness AI against other people.
Who’s Afraid of the AI Boogeyman? Read Journal Article
If “new things” are what have brought us to this crisis, then it is “old things” that become the weapons of the counter-revolution. Faith, family, community, and nature itself ground us in the reality of who we really are as humans.
To Reclaim Our Nature Read Journal Article
What is the state, from whence does it come, and who controls it? One might suppose these questions have obvious answers. In reality the answer is elusive, not easily identified even by those who are part of the system.
What Is the State and Who Controls It? Read Journal Article
We must ask ourselves honestly: Are we still mirroring nature? Or have we started mimicking a machine, a top-down system built on control, not connection? Because what we mirror shapes what we become.
We Stopped Practicing Capitalism Read Journal Article
What do all these “Babel moments” have in common? If we recognize the moment while we are in it, can we do something to change our course, to make the outcome less disastrous than it might otherwise be?
Together, Apart Read Journal Article
Whether on the plains of Shirah or in a lab in Marburg, faith in human technology outpaces our ability to focus and mold it. The “We can, so we will” attitude barrels us ahead without the guidance of whether “We should.”
Too Big to Fail Read Journal Article
