Soren, Thank you for your musings. As a former Wisdom 2.0 attendee, I am grateful for you and your leading work and opinions in the field of spirituality. Today, I propose a different opinion on what you have written in the Reign of the Tech Bros. These so-called tech bros are NOT intelligent. In fact, these are the least intelligent folks that I have run across in a long time.
In Western culture, we put too many important concepts into boxes such as the notion that intelligence is a mental capacity to understand and solve problems. I beg to differ. Intelligence is a whole-body, spiritual, emotional and mind capacity that includes self-control, open-mindedness, insight and intuition, creativity, high emotional intelligence, curiosity, understanding, adaptability, critical thinking, good outcome decision-making, empathy (you mentioned this one - yay!), learning, memory, problem-solving, reasoning, wit. The reality here is that we are seeing the removal of nearly all guard rails (a cornerstone for democracy), greed unchecked, no empathy and pure revenge. Yes, it is sad and difficult. It breaks my heart to see how we have allowed this to happen. So let's pull ourselves up as a collective and take the necessary actions to love and have compassion enough for ourselves to move the circus out of our government and begin the hard task of rebuilding - perhaps something even better than before.
I see the lack of Emotional Intelligence and what someone recently called “emotional literacy” is the elephant in the room we do NOT want to talk about. If we applied a trauma informed lense onto this social culture equation, we would also see how FRAGMENTED POLARIZATIONS are the thing that catalyzes the withdrawal into the fantasy world of Artificial Intelligence - the so called brain children of those who had NO SOCIALIZING skills in formative years and were ostracized by their peers.
If we look at what the cult of the tech bros have in common, the story of dysfunctioning imperialist serfdoms and their broken family systems would reveal a great deal about how the end of these stories tend to go. Now that we have lost whatever guardrails our ancient Republic once had, we can look forward to a freefall into strategically designed chaos …as it currently devolves in the year 2025. May those of us who see this truth be Self led and rally our spiritual truths in this collective time and place. Thank you Wisdom 2.0 community. We be lightworkers here and can still hold a lantern in the darkest of times. 🙏❤️
"Due to Elon’s Asperger’s [sic], Kimbal explained, he has to verbalize to Elon what he is feeling because he cannot feel it otherwise."
* Note that what was previously labeled as Asperger's is now simply autistic, reflecting that it has always been part of the spectrum, not a separate category.
I understand you are quoting his brother, and not to take away from your larger points, but this is very harmful misinformation to spread, Soren.
I am autistic. Also hyperempathetic. As many, many autistic people are.
It might be useful to research the double empathy problem. It's not that autistic people don't have empathy. It's that we process information differently than neurotypical people do. Studies have shown that empathy & communication within neurotypes (neurotypical with neurotypical / autistic with autistic) show the same levels & qualities of empathy & understanding. It's when we have cross-neurotype conversations (neurotypical with autistic) that you get 2 people who process information in different ways and potentially come off to each other as not understanding / empathising.
As for Musk, just like any group of people connected by some thread or other, there will be variations of character, beliefs, etc. Musk is an idiot on his own. Him being autistic is neither an exacerbating nor a mitigating factor.
I have seen Elon interviewed many times. He has all the clinical markers of psychopathy. This personality type can excel at business because they are ruthlessly focused on their goal, regardless of collateral damage or who they destroy in the process. I don't think the average American voter would have wanted this personality type in the Oval Office, but alas, who knew...Their emotional tie into Trump over rides any logistical points regarding the havoc they are sowing to the country.
Hi Soren. I have started reading your blog recently, and I have been appreciating your wisdom and the ways in which you are addressing the current political climate through a spiritual lens. Very few spiritual guides have wanted to speak about the current explosive geopolitics. And yet we have to live within the current conflictual contexts and make sense of them. I have been trying to reconcile the violence and hatred and what I see as atrocities committed by governments and groups of people, with the teachings on love by the great saints such as Neem Karoli Baba and Thich Nhat Hanh. Though I have been actively guarding my heart from hate, the more difficult task has been to love those that I see as cruel, greedy and unjust. My burning questions have been: How do I love someone that I do not like, or whose actions I revile? And when is it time to be an activist, rather than a neutral person who is trying so hard to not cause any harm to anyone? How does one respond in keeping with dharma when one sees another causing great suffering, or acting out of malice or evil intent?
Soren, Thank you for your musings. As a former Wisdom 2.0 attendee, I am grateful for you and your leading work and opinions in the field of spirituality. Today, I propose a different opinion on what you have written in the Reign of the Tech Bros. These so-called tech bros are NOT intelligent. In fact, these are the least intelligent folks that I have run across in a long time.
In Western culture, we put too many important concepts into boxes such as the notion that intelligence is a mental capacity to understand and solve problems. I beg to differ. Intelligence is a whole-body, spiritual, emotional and mind capacity that includes self-control, open-mindedness, insight and intuition, creativity, high emotional intelligence, curiosity, understanding, adaptability, critical thinking, good outcome decision-making, empathy (you mentioned this one - yay!), learning, memory, problem-solving, reasoning, wit. The reality here is that we are seeing the removal of nearly all guard rails (a cornerstone for democracy), greed unchecked, no empathy and pure revenge. Yes, it is sad and difficult. It breaks my heart to see how we have allowed this to happen. So let's pull ourselves up as a collective and take the necessary actions to love and have compassion enough for ourselves to move the circus out of our government and begin the hard task of rebuilding - perhaps something even better than before.
I see the lack of Emotional Intelligence and what someone recently called “emotional literacy” is the elephant in the room we do NOT want to talk about. If we applied a trauma informed lense onto this social culture equation, we would also see how FRAGMENTED POLARIZATIONS are the thing that catalyzes the withdrawal into the fantasy world of Artificial Intelligence - the so called brain children of those who had NO SOCIALIZING skills in formative years and were ostracized by their peers.
If we look at what the cult of the tech bros have in common, the story of dysfunctioning imperialist serfdoms and their broken family systems would reveal a great deal about how the end of these stories tend to go. Now that we have lost whatever guardrails our ancient Republic once had, we can look forward to a freefall into strategically designed chaos …as it currently devolves in the year 2025. May those of us who see this truth be Self led and rally our spiritual truths in this collective time and place. Thank you Wisdom 2.0 community. We be lightworkers here and can still hold a lantern in the darkest of times. 🙏❤️
"Due to Elon’s Asperger’s [sic], Kimbal explained, he has to verbalize to Elon what he is feeling because he cannot feel it otherwise."
* Note that what was previously labeled as Asperger's is now simply autistic, reflecting that it has always been part of the spectrum, not a separate category.
I understand you are quoting his brother, and not to take away from your larger points, but this is very harmful misinformation to spread, Soren.
I am autistic. Also hyperempathetic. As many, many autistic people are.
It might be useful to research the double empathy problem. It's not that autistic people don't have empathy. It's that we process information differently than neurotypical people do. Studies have shown that empathy & communication within neurotypes (neurotypical with neurotypical / autistic with autistic) show the same levels & qualities of empathy & understanding. It's when we have cross-neurotype conversations (neurotypical with autistic) that you get 2 people who process information in different ways and potentially come off to each other as not understanding / empathising.
As for Musk, just like any group of people connected by some thread or other, there will be variations of character, beliefs, etc. Musk is an idiot on his own. Him being autistic is neither an exacerbating nor a mitigating factor.
I have seen Elon interviewed many times. He has all the clinical markers of psychopathy. This personality type can excel at business because they are ruthlessly focused on their goal, regardless of collateral damage or who they destroy in the process. I don't think the average American voter would have wanted this personality type in the Oval Office, but alas, who knew...Their emotional tie into Trump over rides any logistical points regarding the havoc they are sowing to the country.
Hi Soren. I have started reading your blog recently, and I have been appreciating your wisdom and the ways in which you are addressing the current political climate through a spiritual lens. Very few spiritual guides have wanted to speak about the current explosive geopolitics. And yet we have to live within the current conflictual contexts and make sense of them. I have been trying to reconcile the violence and hatred and what I see as atrocities committed by governments and groups of people, with the teachings on love by the great saints such as Neem Karoli Baba and Thich Nhat Hanh. Though I have been actively guarding my heart from hate, the more difficult task has been to love those that I see as cruel, greedy and unjust. My burning questions have been: How do I love someone that I do not like, or whose actions I revile? And when is it time to be an activist, rather than a neutral person who is trying so hard to not cause any harm to anyone? How does one respond in keeping with dharma when one sees another causing great suffering, or acting out of malice or evil intent?
Definitely fits my path as a Course in Miracles student. Forgiveness is the only unifying purpose for existence.
Thank you so very, very much!