Six simple steps into the cult.
Join today, and save humanity from itself!
To enter the cult:
Create your own substack page.
After careful consideration, write a post about what the cult should be.
Give yourself a couple days after writing it to edit and hone your thoughts.
Cut and paste these instructions (steps 1-6) into the top of your post.
Link to your post in the comments of this post, and wherever else you want.
I will read your post about your cult.
The following is my idea, in case you are interested.
Cult Idea Generation 1: (yours will be Generation 2)
Here are the five principles for my conception of the cult. As I said in my previous post it is a layer two cult, which is not concerned with life’s deepest questions. Its not a replacement for religion, it only concerns itself with how best to live amongst the superintelligent surveillance monster robots people created.
Here are the five principles for the cult:
Illumination
Energy
Work
Music/Art
Empty Space
You may have been expecting more practical, specific rules, like don’t use social media, do use a VPN, and especially, don’t eat pork, but the evil robots will adapt very quickly and our strategies will have to be constantly changing. In the long term it will be helpful to have some more general principals to guide us, so in the fight against whatever new evil is currently being employed by the demon-bots, we don’t have to start from scratch every day to build a strategy.
Illumination
We will always need to be able to see what is going on as clearly as possible. Both with the robots and ourselves. The robots may employ exotic strategies we have never seen, so it is important to look carefully at what they are doing and not assume they are doing the same thing they were yesterday.
On the other end, we do know a lot about ourselves, and about humans, and the better we can understand ourselves and human nature, the better protected we will be from attempts to manipulate human nature, whether or not we understand the strategy or not. Humans all have weaknesses, it is true, but we can develop them into strengths. A key part of this fight will be finding new ways of identifying weaknesses the evil robots find, and converting them into new strengths. Or at least competencies.
Energy
The path of subservience and domination by the evil robots will always be easier and more comfortable. They will find ways to make us want what they want us to want, and fear what they want us to fear, and not understand what they don’t want us to understand. It will take a lot of energy to resist the current created by the robots and stay on the path of being a human.
Work
We will need to make things. devices, institutions, services etc. that have a wall of separation from the robots. It will likely be easier to make them with the help of the robots, but inevitably this will give them a new path to exploitation. So we need to be ready to see the wisdom of doing the work of doing things ourselves.
Music/Art
We need to have a reason to want to fight the robots. Many of the old mechanisms that gave people a sense of belonging to a larger group will be targeted or have already been weakened or upended. Music and Art will likely be the most difficult form of community building to defeat, because it is so ephemeral. It is Art and music that will find a way to ooze through the cracks in whatever barriers the robot monsters create, and instill and retain a sense of community and belonging to something valuable in the humans.
Empty Space
You need to have regular and intentional periods where there is as little input as possible. This provides a break from whatever insidious games the robots are currently playing, and after the break, their evil robot tricks will be more noticeable when you resume. In this way humans can acquire the illumination necessary to employ energy, work, music and art to defeat the terrible, bad, robots. Welcome to the cult.