“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”
- Edward Abbey
The modern world is built on a system in which we must “progress” in order to survive.
The issue is that we never ask the question “towards what are we progressing?”
When we look at a “growth at all costs” mentality, we can rationalize the worst attrocities in the name of progress. We see it in the “AI” space, where “we have to do it, because someone else will!” We must displace and meticulously destroy livelihoods, we must “create god” (don’t get it twisted, these people think that is what they are doing), otherwise “China” will do it.
The hilarious part about this is that China is at least producing LLM models that are open and available to everyone.
Anthropic, and Open(Closed)AI are not.
But this expands far beyond the realm of Artificial Intelligence and into almost every area of endeavor.
Consumerism is driven by a growth at all costs mentality, buying the “latest and greatest” - even though the latest is almost never the “greatest” these days with planned obsolescence and cost cutting (cost cutting for the companies, not for you as the consumer).
Hell, even as a younger man that was enthralled with building muscle, many take a “growth at any cost” stance, taking drugs in proportions that will shorten overall lifespan and wellbeing.
Instead of living in accordance with nature and God’s will, we are constantly living for ourselves in a way that will destroy everyone.
Because that’s what the cancer cell does.
The only way to progress is toward sanctification, it is to progress in holiness and Love, that which is actually infinite.
All other progress is subject to the winds of the day, and the will to power - of which is continually changing.
Progress to that which is.
All else is deconstruction by definition.
As always, God bless, and until next time.
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