The human animal is a social animal, in the truest sense of the words, more similar in our essence to ants, bees and termites than to any other creature. And like any social animal, we are pushed by our very nature towards The Hive, a meaning for our species where consciousness is outsourced, autonomy is abdicated, and discovery is denatured. In his keynote presentation at Epsilon Connect 2024, Ben Hunt shows how the technological push towards The Hive has never been stronger than here at the dawn of the Age of AI, but also how we can use those same tools of language, memory and story to reclaim our human society, our human dominion, and our human being.
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Ben, I don’t have words to describe how powerfully good is your monologue on big tech (social media) offering to convert sadness to a little bit of delicious anger. Bullseye.
A huge thank you for your willingness to be open about your observation of your own process of getting ever more angry at smaller and smaller things. Your description of your own experience perfectly matches my own experience, watching my own thoughts move towards the temptation to violence.
I am deeply moved by this piece and I will be sharing it as widely as I can.
This is why I have been following Epsilon Theory for years now: You really do help me to understand the world in fundamentally new ways. Thank you!
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