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Acceleration, Adorno, JB Peterson, Catholicism

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The Dismal Prospects for Humanity

I think that the long term prospects for humanity are extremely dismal. And as I've already said, I think that the our opportunities to avert that are profoundly limited. Once people kind of come to just accept the nature of reality, especially with respect to capitalism, this has concrete physiological effects in literally making you a more powerful type of person. People don't yet know what they are capable of. That's why I've been talking a lot about neurobiology and reading people like Antonio de Blasio who have basically mapped out empirically how Spinoza was right. These ideas are not just realistic hopes and dreams. This is an empirically sophisticated way of thinking about the choices and the options available to

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