WE are not in charge of US.
The Secular-status-game of public denial is just beginning to come to an end
Today's video is a commentary on the @PageauJonathan and @vervaeke_john conversation about "angels".
They didn't really do too much talking about angels, it was mostly about language and ontology about agency, intelligence, personhood, consciousness and self-consciousness one level up.
This subject is in some ways THE contested subject post-enlightenment and this conversation was remarkably productive. Both men, in some ways has "a lot to lose" but by virtue of the trust being built up by "reps", repeated public conversations things went well.
We have language and patterns of perceiving that have not been fully exorcised by the Enlightenment and Modernity that are once again up for re-examination as Modernity recedes.
Radical traditionalists like @PageauJonathan are finding allies in honest cognitive scientists like @vervaeke_john in doing this exploration. Materialism has an insufficient ontology to account for agency one level up.
I believe we suppress this in our culture because like many things we suppress as a group it's an inconvenient and humiliating fact. WE, this congregation of humans, are not in control of OURSELVES, what WE do traveling through time together.
WE, are trying desperately, for example to avoid WW3. WE believe by Modernist creed that only WE exists, yet we know, but don't want to readily admit that THINGS get "out of hand" quickly. WE have seen it before.
WE know that when WE get together other things that WE very much want to avoid regularly surface and WE can't account for it with our secular cultural framework. WE blame committees, bureaucracies, "others", "what history tells us", etc.
We want to make sure that whatever it is that is reliably CAUSING these unintended, often negative outcomes has no Being nor Ontology because of what really amounts to a secular religion, although we don't dare use THAT word...
Social sciences like psychology, sociology and economics become our cultural priests in naming the "things" that our ontology can't account for. We do so in the hopes that WE can control these "things". Isn't this simply modern priestcraft?
Ghosts of ancient ways of talking about this haunt our language. Trust try to define or avoid the word "spirit" on contemporary usage today. Everyone wants to be "spiritual" but we dare not suggest that "spirits" "exist".
This little secular-status-game of suppressing public acknowledgment of what's going on levels above us is ending. It will still probably take a few decades to improve the nuance but it is indeed ending.
It's really hard to know what all of this will look like going forward, but we're clearly beginning.