1/2There’s more happening in this image than you think.Masked, anonymous, stripped of individuality. Standing as part of a collective. The Don’t Die sigil on their foreheads.One holds metabolic disease.The other a symbol of vitality.Now a subculture, soon mainstream. This is how new ideologies are born. They begin as symbols, manifest in spirit and then harden into structure.Revolutions erupt when a civilization’s founding myth becomes incompatible with its reality. The system fractures, dissolves, and opens up space for new meaning to rush in and replace it. This pattern has been repeated throughout history.The agrarian empires (800-200 BCE) ruled via tribal power and violence, creating a moral crisis that gave rise to Buddhism, Greek philosophy, Judaism and Confucianism. Feudalism (1600-1800) ruled via divine monarchy, creating a stagnation crisis that gave rise to rational inquiry, the scientific method, individual rights and democracy.Industrial capitalism (1848-1945) ruled via mechanization and labor exploitation, creating a crisis of alienation, mass poverty and urban chaos that gave rise to socialism, nationalism, regulation and collective rights. Liberal capitalism (1980-2025) ruled via consumer sovereignty and free markets, creating a crisis of attention capture, metabolic collapse and existential despair that will give rise to….Capitalism solved for scarcity. Its defining virtue was freedom to choose. Ironically and perhaps inevitably, compulsion replaced scarcity and freedom decayed into addiction. The data confirm:+ 74% of U.S. adults are overweight or obese.+ Depression and anxiety rates are at record highs+ A society metabolically and psychologically exhaustedAI is now acting as the accelerant. As AI automates, it decouples value from human labor, dissolving the moral logic of capitalism. Without my profession, who am I? The useless class is introduced.
2/2As AI outperforms human cognition, humans must confront the uncomfortable question of what justifies our existence. I’d be thrilled if AI revealed our systemic decay. Our morality of entropy. Inviting us to own and reconcile with our mismanagement of life and our psychological enslavement. If you’ve read this far, my invitation to you is to embrace this new moral philosophy. We do not know what comes next for the human race. We do know that none of us want to die right now. Aligning with vitality and existence above all is pragmatic and worth our devotion and courage.Already erased the post: https://x.com/bryan_johnson/status/1982528463740547300https://archive.is/pwANO
