Technology is stripping away the basic human rhythms we’ve lived
Technology is stripping away the basic human rhythms we've lived, as artificial alarms and closed shades replace ancestral cycles dictated by natural light. This disconnect marks the first time in history humans live outside their evolutionary history, eroding daily community gatherings that formed existence for hundreds of thousands of years. Ultimately, this fundamental shift makes the current era the scariest time to live because biological rhythms essential to being human have been completely dismantled by modern innovation. [Automatically generated summary]
Think of what it really means to be a human, right?
Like, this is a very, very scary thing, but think about what it really means to be a human.
We had rituals for most of humanity.
Anytime you've heard of, like, ancestral living, you see people talking about like the keto diet, you hear someone talking about the carnivore diet.
I know you guys had Sean Baker.
Think about what it meant really to experience, to be in ancestral living, right?
To live like that.
It was these rituals.
The rituals were basically you'd wake up because the sun came out.
So you would wake up.
Everybody would wake up every single day because the sun came out.
Everybody would go to bed because the sun went down, right?
People would gather at night because there's a community gatherings, right?
They have communal gatherings at a set time every single day.
All of these things that are rituals.
These are things that we just do because that's just how we are as humans.
We don't have those rituals anymore.
I wake up and it's a dark room, so I'm not really waking up from the sun anymore.
I wake up from an alarm.
I go to bed at night and it's not because of an alarm, it's just because, I mean, I close my shades.
I can't even see the sun.
That's not why I'm going to sleep.
So all of these things, all of these rituals don't exist.
So I'm creating artificial rituals now.
And so what does it look like to be a human and you don't even have those rituals anymore?
You're basically not living like a human anymore.
You're living completely out of what humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years.
There's never been a time in history for hundreds of thousands of years ever.
I mean, we've had a big conversation people have is like everyone, every time, every century people are like, oh, this is the scariest time to live, right?
No, this is literally the scariest time to live because this is the first time we're not being human and having rituals.
Like these rituals are just the core basis of what humans are.