The Spiritual Era

About 30,000 years ago, one man challenged another to a fight over a petty dispute. Challenger had a herculean body, probably 8 feet in height. The one who was challenged looked meek. The entire village gathered with the expectation to see how this herculean man would kill this meek.

That day, the ‘meek’ did something no one expected. He built a slingshot, never let the challenger come close, and actually ended up killing him.

This is how I imagine a village full of people who saw the power of intellect over the physical body.

The world was never the same. Intellect > Physical strength forever.

Fast forward to the 21st century. The world is being ruled by the smartest.

But we’re a global village watching the smartest fail at creating a stable, sustainable world. Billionaires and smart folks are powerful, but they ‘need’ to feed this machine.

My theory (quickly turning into belief) is that the spiritual will invent a slingshot equivalent that will kill the notion that intellect is to be worshipped.

And we have the internet as a global stage where villagers will see Spirit > Intellect forever.

I’m still exploring this line of thinking. Do DM me if you wish to discuss/explore.

Some derivative thoughts:

The violence of the mind

From the physical era to the intellectual era, we reduced the violence on the physical body significantly. But we invented another kind of violence to dominate and subjugate other human beings. The violence of the mind. Be it by yelling on TV, sucking our attention with apps, taking over our identity, data, and making us numb by feeding us mindless dark stories, and making people run like donkeys for fake Fiat money.

This violence will. be wiped out in the spiritual era.

Mental six-pack

We realized that intellect cannot flourish until we take care of our bodies. Quantified self and the entire fitness movement is late but taking over.

In the spiritual era, we will realize, our spirit cannot flourish without both our bodies and mind being strong. So we will not just have six-pack Chamath’s, but we will have the mental equivalent of that.