The Pull is the subtle, unconscious force that draws you into the screen. I am writing this series as a practical guide to overcoming it for good—before it’s too late. In this entry, I’ll discuss the high-level roadmap needed.| lessfoolish.substack.com
Thus far in this series—a guide to overcoming The Pull for good—we’ve covered the following:| lessfoolish.substack.com
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
This is a 4,400-word guide to help men respond—not react—to the potential for needless debate, petty status dynamics, and physical violence found in social fields where men with a certain threshold of testosterone gather.| 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
Its physical source is the screen, whether on a phone or computer. Its digital source comes from email, messaging apps, or social media. Its emotional source comes from various unspoken social expectations, FOMO, and an existential loneliness stemming from a lack of belonging and “feeling seen” outside the screen.| lessfoolish.substack.com