It no longer feels like we are in a culture war but rather a spiritual one—an “unseen war,” as my Orthodox brothers and sisters call it. For secular-minded readers, an unseen war can be understood as a conflict in which one force seeks to capture attention and pull it away from what is most important—a.k.a., what’s most sacred.| lessfoolish.substack.com
There are some people you should read if you're interested in the spiritual dangers emerging with AI and what some call “The Machine”—a self-perpetuating force, socially framed as technological progress, that has a “direction of travel” toward replacing nature with technology, eliminating tradition, and ushering in a post-human world.| lessfoolish.substack.com
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I noticed a difference immediately—a greater sense of peace from day one. It was a spontaneous decision to go on a digital fast: no social media, messengers, or email. My laptop sat on my desk, unopened for two weeks. Camille’s work provides her two weeks off during the holidays, and I wanted to join her, shifting my focus away from the screen.| lessfoolish.substack.com