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LOVE OR DIE LOCATING OURSELVES: ARTICULATING THE ESSENTIAL CONTEXT FOR THE ONE MOUNTAIN, MANY PATHS ORAL ESSAYS
Story is not made up, as postmodernity suggests. We all live in inescapable
frameworks; our framework is the story we live in. Right now, Reality lives according to win/lose metrics, a story that is generating existential risk. We need to change that story. When we change that story, when we tell a new story—not a made-up story, but a new Story of Value, rooted in First Principles and First Values—then it all changes. We need to participate in the evolution of the source code of consciousness and culture, which is the evolution of love.
We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response is Outrageous Love.
WHAT IS EROS? Eros is the experience of radical aliveness, moving towards, seeking, desiring ever deeper contact and ever greater wholeness.4 Eros is the core fabric of Reality’s being and the motivational architecture of Reality’s becoming.
I’ve mentioned Nick Bostrom before. Nick Bostrom is the person who coined the term existential risk. He wrote a very important book called Superintelligence. He just wrote a new book. The book is utter insanity. It’s rubbish. It pretends to be philosophy, but it’s trite. I was embarrassed by the book. We’re going to respond to it in our book, TechnoFeudalism. I have huge respect for Nick Bostrom. He did incredibly important work at the Oxford Centre for Existential Risk. But he literally couldn’t find his way to a new story because, in the end, Nick is a subtle materialist, and value, for him, is ultimately not real. He ran into a value uploading problem: How do you engage the planetary stack and invest it with value when value itself is not real? He literally
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Live Your Story by Marc Gafni presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 6 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 6 are particularly representative.
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