Millennials like me grew up with tech; those after us have grown up within it. O.W. Root, The First Disembodied Generation, 8/28/25
The millennial generation and the generations before them grew up in a personal world bustling with embodied souls–people–living and socializing in neighborhoods, on front porches, or in parks, and working at the local personal bank, telephone company, utility company, small mom and pop stores, bakeries, grocery stores, arcades, and restaurants. If there was a problem with your phone connection it was resolved by a visit to the local phone company where you spoke to embodied souls–people. People personally knew each other and their children personally socialized with each other in a personal world during games of hide and seek, soft ball, bike riding, little league, picnics, or perhaps long walks.
Today’s generation are growing up in a soulless impersonal machine where everything from mortgage companies to trash collection and insurance company’s are no longer local and personal but exist somewhere unseen within the impersonal machine. Contacting disembodied entities (phone company, etc) generally means either speaking to a disembodied voice located somewhere in a foreign country that speaks poor English or speaking with disembodied Artificial Intelligence.
Zoomers are no longer socialized as prior generations were because they prefer to be plugged into screens of every size where they interact with disembodied voices and disembodied text in the artificial reality of the impersonal machine they have been growing up in from an early age. Technology not only connects them to disembodied voices on their screens but to the false reality emanating from the impersonal machine whose authoritative not-human voice is disembodied Artificial Intelligence.
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I’m not ready to jump to the conclusions that this article suggests. It looks dire yes, but there are still many other variables and unknowns in play. Grain of salt.
The conclusions my article suggests are grounded in a new form of a very ancient way of seeing man and reality: mystical pantheism, man as god as in Babylon.
The new form is Gnostic Transhumanism, Luciferianism, New Age, Progressive/Liberal Christianity and other off shoots
The first thing you need to understand is that with gnosticism everything is the self-production of the individual imagination and will
The second thing is that the Fall was not into sin but of spirit into evil physical matter, which includes the body. Just as ancient gnostics hated their physical bodies so do contemporary gnostics. Transhumans, for instance, describe their bodies as meat sacks.
The third thing is this: a chosen few gnostics (technocrats) have within their brains a divine spark described today as Mother, deepest self, Christ consciousness, divine essence, consciousness.
Fourth, since for the Chosen Gnostic, the problem is not ‘original sin’ but the captivity of the soul in material existence salvation is some form of escape from matter. If you recall the movie, Transformers, then you watched a televised gnostic dream world production where spirit has escaped its physical body through migration of spirit into an immortal machine.
Fifth, the digitized world being created by gnostics such as Meta, where a spirit trapped in a physical body can migrate into the digitized world and live vicariously through an avatar is an example of what my article is all about: impersonal immortal machine, devices that allow spirit to migrate out of the physical world of matter, and Artificial Intelligence, the Voice or god of the machine.
Thank you, this frames it much better. I was fuzzy on what you mentioned above, but now I’m scratching those variables and unknowns. And the grain of salt.
I’ve heard the ‘third thing’ mentioned in an Indiana Jones movie, about the search for the lost Ark of the Covenant. It was near the beginning when two governent types showed up to consult him about it and Mr Brody mentioned the search for the divine within us. That left me puzzled enough to remember it, since there’s no such thing.
Yes, I have a Tranformers movie or two which I watched once. Now I won’t since the theme strikes me as being for twelve year olds. There are no ET aliens or ET robots either.