AGI, Knowledge Work, and the Meaning Crisis As AGI approaches, knowledge work loses its status as the engine of identity and time-structure. The essay argues that wage labor has become the secular scaffold of meaning, and that its collapse will...

AI may not create the meaning crisis.
It may just expose how much of modern meaning was already being carried by wage labor, clock-time, and the professional self.

New essay:
lewisconnolly.com/2026/01/22/w...

#AI #AGI #MeaningCrisis #FutureOfWork #Psychology #Technology

Your Brain Is A Glitch: Why You’re Sad and How to Stop The Consciousness Paradox: Is Your Mind Your Own Worst Enemy? 🧠💥 Ever feel like your brain is a high-performance sports car that only knows how to drive toward a cliff? Welcome to the club. In this episode, we’re peeling back the layers of the human self-awareness paradox—the ultimate cosmic joke where our greatest evolutionary achievement is also the primary source of our existential suffering. We are the only species capable of mapping the stars while simultaneously losing sleep over our own mortality. We’ve used our ability to reason to dominate the physical world, but that same intelligence forces us to confront the terrifying absurdity of life and the limits of our own understanding. ⚡️ What We’re Dissecting: - The Tragic Paradox: Why the drive for control in a chaotic universe creates a psychological tug-of-war. - The Death of Myth: How modern scientific progress stripped away our comforting illusions, leaving us face-to-face with the void. - Evolutionary Anxiety: Is your existential dread actually a sign of a highly functioning mind? - Beauty from Chaos: How to transform profound pain into art, love, and wonder through the lens of conscious choice. This isn’t just a philosophy lecture; it’s a survival guide for the modern soul. We explore why the 'void' isn't something to fear, but a canvas for finding meaning in a world that refuses to give us easy answers. Whether you're a science geek or a soulful seeker, this conversation will change how you view your own reflection. 🌌✨ Stop running from the tension and start using your conscious mind to forge a purpose that is uniquely yours. 🚀 LISTEN NOW to master the art of being human. If this episode resonates, share it with a fellow overthinker and don't forget to subscribe for your weekly dose of existential clarity! #Consciousness #HumanCondition #ExistentialCrisis #Philosophy #SelfAwareness #Mindfulness #MeaningOfLife  

📣 New Podcast! "Your Brain Is A Glitch: Why You’re Sad and How to Stop" on @Spreaker #amorfati #art #consciousness #existentialdread #existentialism #growth #lifeadvice #meaningcrisis #mentalhealth #mindset #optimisticnihilism #philosophy #psychology #purpose #resilience #selfawareness #wisdom

Democracy Is Dying and It Was Never the Only Thing Keeping Us Alive - Dualistic Unity As democracy strains and power centralizes, this essay explores where human agency has always lived—beyond monarchies, governments, and failing systems.

Democracy may be weakening—but was it ever meant to carry our sense of meaning and vitality?

dualisticunity.com/democracy-is...

#MeaningCrisis #Awareness

open.substack.com What is the point of Creation Spirituality?

If you’ve been whispering “what’s the point?” this episode offers a way back into your life.

https://bit.ly/49T8PX6

#CreationSpirituality #Christopagan #Druidry #Mysticism #SpiritualPractice #MeaningCrisis

open.substack.com What is the point of Creation Spirituality?

Creation Spirituality gives us a way out of the meaning crisis. New episode up now: “Why Creation Spirituality Still Matters.”

https://bit.ly/49T8PX6

#CreationSpirituality #Christopagan #Druidry #Mysticism #SpiritualPractice #MeaningCrisis

open.substack.com What is the point of Creation Spirituality?

If you’ve been whispering “what’s the point?” this episode offers a way back into your life.

https://bit.ly/49T8PX6

#CreationSpirituality #Christopagan #Druidry #Mysticism #SpiritualPractice #MeaningCrisis

open.substack.com What is the point of Creation Spirituality?

Creation Spirituality gives us a way out of the meaning crisis. New episode up now: “Why Creation Spirituality Still Matters.”

https://bit.ly/49T8PX6

#CreationSpirituality #Christopagan #Druidry #Mysticism #SpiritualPractice #MeaningCrisis

How to respond to societal collapse | Sarah Wilson |

#metacrisis #meaningcrisis

Via @ www.tedxsydney.com

youtu.be/l7Ay73HHHrE

The Informational Singularity Is Already Here When knowledge collapses under its own weight

Harvard now gives 60% of students A’s. But this isn’t about grade inflation. It’s about meaning collapse.
We’ve hit the informational singularity, where everyone can know everything, and understanding disappears

#InformationalSingularity #AIandEducation #FutureOfKnowledge #HigherEd #MeaningCrisis

You Were Never Valuable Because You’re Good at Stuff TLDR: People panic about AI making us obsolete, then rush to say “your life still matters!” without explaining why. That gap is the…

The whole "when computers beat us at everything" framing is corrupt.
It assumes human value comes from being better at tasks than other things.
That's not philosophy. That's capitalism pretending to be philosophy.
medium.com/@prateekj24/...

#AI #Philosophy #MeaningCrisis #PostWork #Capitalism

Connection is the antidote. Episode drops 7/25—join us and let’s find some meaning together. shrinkthenation.buzzsprout.com

#ShrinkTheNation #MeaningCrisis #Podcast

Finding the Third Story and Shape the World (A Christopagan practice of Fractal Kinship) Somewhere between folk wisdom and rational thought, a new story waits to be born.

New episode: Are you living out someone else’s story, or daring to write your own? Discover the Noosphere and the Third Story.
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Have you felt the meaning crisis in your own life?#christopagan, #holarchy #fractalkinship #thirdstory #noosphere #meaningcrisis

#biology #life #philosophy #existentialism #absurdism #evolution #religion #pantheism #science #molecularbiology #meaningoflife #meaningcrisis #albertcamus

Burnout is when your soul says: “Not this again.” #MeaningCrisis

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
— Jean Baudrillard

#Bluesky #DemocracyOrSpectacle #Baudrillard #GriefAndJustice #CollectiveGrief #MeaningCrisis #EmotionalLiteracy #PoliticalGrief #ResistTheSpectacle #HealingTogether #LivingWithLoss

Just a Speck Maybe I am just a speck in a fast and meaningless universe but, I am a speck who knows love, beauty, and wonder. In this moment, it is enough. Dean Krosecz Glory Page 47

Just a Speck

Maybe
I am
just a speck
in a vast and meaningless universe
but,
I am
a speck
who knows
love,
beauty,
and wonder.

In this moment,
it is enough.

Dean Krosecz
Glory
Page 47
#Meaning #Poetry #MyWords #WritingCommunity #MeaningCrisis #philosophy #Spirituality #Love #Wonder #Beauty

A photograph of a forgotten high street in a northern UK town. Redbrick buildings with boarded-up shops line the cracked pavement, litter scattered across the street. A lone individual in a heavy coat walks past a broken streetlamp under an overcast sky, reflecting isolation and decline.

1) The Meaning Crisis. The growing sense of disconnection and loss of purpose in today’s world. As old sources of meaning fade, many feel adrift. How do we find shared values again? 🧵

#ClimateAction
#GrassrootsAction
#SystemicChange
#MeaningCrisis #Connection #TheShift

What a wonderful, sensitive, empathic and intelligent talk by @natehagens.bsky.social with John Vervaeke!
#humanbehavior #cognitivescience #meaningcrisis #natehagens
youtube.com/watch?v=AvgL...

John Vervaeke & Nate Hagens discuss the #MeaningCrisis & how we can reconnect in a collapsing world. This resonates deeply with our vision: building connection, justice & regeneration. Could a modern framework guide systemic change? Watch here: youtu.be/AvgLmTkCwc4 #CoMP #SystemicChange #Connection

Tigers and Desire 1 -
How do our wants become us? When we, like the camel driver enter Dorothea, do we become the Tiger that climbs aluminum towers, or crosses each canal? Should we buy an amethyst or an astrolabe? #ItaloCalvino #Existential #MeaningCrisis