Mind Transformation 179

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It’s time to think. I’ve just finished watching another couple of lectures by Peterson (Personality and Its Transformation 9, 10) and want to write something about it. The last lecture was devoted to Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Kierkegaard. I very like one Kierkegaard’s piece of writing where he opposes his version of socialism. Now, I’m about to reproduce it in my imagination and describe as far as I can. If we are making life easier and easier, we’ll have inevitably achieved the point where this ease has to become a kind of difficulty. There will be no any other option rather than to do something that is not easy. That’s hard to imagine, but I guess it’s our near future. By near I mean that we are already there, but some of us have no eyes to see it. And what should we do with that is quite puzzling. What will mankind as a species do if there is nothing to do at all? Everything is possible; you simply have no need to exert yourself to get what you want. It seems to be the next big question of collective consciousness. A meaningless collective dream without any goals, that’s what we are getting in. There will be no point to live despite, perhaps, creativity. But it also is going to be meaningless because of lack of competition. If computers are able to produce everything; if they are able to produce meaning—who will have a wish for doing something? There is no point to make up science, poetry, philosophy, novels, etc. By a single click every fool can get any kind of an intellectual work which will have the same quality as Shakespeare’s tragedies or even better. So it seems to be the really vital question for the future: “How to make life more difficult?”

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