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The advancement of technology into our intimate lives is undeniable, as is the consequent deterioration of our personal power, mental, and physical health across entire generations.
We live in a society that has not yet found a healthy way to deal with technology; rather, it seems to benefit from the opposite. This is because the issue is not technology itself or AI as isolated events, but it is very important to understand that behind every technological platform there is a corporation with a growing and voracious need to exponentially increase its profits every year.
This changes everything.
This voracity leads them to invest their best resources in finding every possible way to turn every human being into a consumer dependent on the product.
In a world where the earth and its resources have already been totally privatized, the main asset sought to be monopolized today is our attention and energy.
To achieve this, entrepreneurs have had to invest part of their nearly infinite wealth in paving the way to the individual's heart, infiltrating all the institutions that are supposed to protect people and bringing them to their side, to finally meddle in our homes, conquering every aspect of our lives.
The cultural decay at the hands of the advancement of digital content is only a programmed consequence of what I call "the digitalization of human consciousness," a transfer of power, sovereignty, and reality creating capabilites from the individual human to a collective/corporate entity that finds its greatest ally in AI in its crusade to conquer all markets and that is steadily advancing in every area of life.
This is not just about "how to deal with digital entertainment, screen time, or misinformation", but how to effectively confront this growing phenomenon of surrendering the collective consciousness in exchange for cheap dopamine and an ephemeral sense of security, which seems to be the only prize that most people feel worthy and deserving of in an increasingly convoluted and confusing world.
This transfer of consciousness operates through two fundamental pillars:
Money and Time. The dynamic duo of the consciousness digitalization
Money: The only internationally agreed-upon asset of value, the only thing capable of converting every aspect of human life into a quantifiable, operational, storable, and marketable asset, whose value has been given by the individuals themselves, who have been willing to give their best and do EVERYTHING possible in exchange for money, which is spent almost entirely on maintaining the lifestyle that makes this exchange possible.
The rat race, they call it.
It is not a mere financial instrument; that would be the case if there were not the hunger, that phantom deficit that few include in the formula, that need to always earn more, produce more, to pay for something that has been "lent" to the people, with interest but without our consent, and that will never be fully repaid, because it was designed to operate this way.
In any other context, this would be called a Ponzi scheme.
It is this phantom deficit that has entire populations waking up at 6 a.m. to go to work, abandoning their children to the hands of officials or employees who also operate under the same mantra, creating lifelong trauma. It is this phantom deficit that makes you need more and more time to dedicate to being productive, time that you are no longer dedicating to growth, research, enjoyment, experimentation, evolution, etc.
This phantom deficit expressed in the lack of time, an invisible and invincible enemy that drains your personal power and, with it, your capacity to raise healthy children.
Everyone knows, but no one accepts, that the day only has 24 hours, that our body is absolutely subject, not only to this but to all the Earth's cycles, which are marked by limitations that seem not to exist for our bosses, whose only religion is unlimited exponential growth.
What can happen when you demand more and more from a system that is inherently limited?
Who is paying the consequences?
How much longer are you willing to wait, pretending that we live in a normal world where nothing is happening and everything is a matter of individual choices?
The individual and family response to this Zeitgeist is a great start, as all change begins in the individual; however, it is insufficient in a world where the only destiny we are capable of proposing for our children is "to go out and be part of a workforce," which is precisely what gives life to this dynamic of voracious consumption of consciousness.
A traditional family that is not prepared to confront this phenomenon from its foundations is simply a breeding ground for creating the selfish, lonely, addicted, helpless, and dependent workers of a world whose appearance of normalcy is crumbling and that is showing its true corporate face in which individuals are merely "assets."
Think: What good does it do to eliminate phones in the house, restrict screen use, cook healthy food, and take your children to nature if as soon as they leave school they are going to fall into the Ponzi scheme, either as employees or as entrepreneurs?
It is true that maybe i could be exaggerated, today, but I am very sure that it will not be when your 8-year-old child has to enter the working world.
Today? Tomorrow? In 5 years?
Why is it so difficult for us to associate the high levels of inattention and work demotivation in young people today with the possibility that it is a profound, intuitive collective disillusionment that no longer tolerates the senselessness and makes them question from the depths of their being the failed logic of this nefarious dynamic to which we have unreservedly surrendered everything?
What are we lacking? What reality are we not helping them create?
Indeed, I dare to say that the mere focus on preparing our children to enter the labor market is a major component of their abandonment of other realities in which all those values that fill your heart today are a real way of life, not a utopia.
Leaving aside the philosophy, while it is true that the levels of agreement with what I have just said may vary, I am sure that we have many things in common that justify paying attention to a project like this:
Currently, there are thousands of self-managed communities that, by making intelligent use of technology, can provide their own energy, food, shelter, and entertainment without giving in to the conditions of the technocratic world.
This is no hippie fantasy, as there are already many such communities around the world, and the first to participate in lifestyles like this are the millionaire owners of the companies you work for.
Attention! I am not trying to sell you the idea of forming an ascetic "Amish commune" full of sacrifices, far from everything you know, but to introduce the idea of community as a response to this that seems to overwhelm us; just gathering and talking is already the beginning; the destination is yet to be carved.
My point is:
What you perhaps thought was "the way things are," "the world we live in," "what there is," may actually be just a big transgenerational Ponzi scheme that you don't get out of by making more money but by changing your mindset.
By its nature centered on the well-being of people, the community is the only entity that at least has the opportunity to confront this advance. That is why, based on my learning during my final years of social psychology studies, my professional and human experience, I will go into detail about what this vilified term means to me.
Individuals belonging to a community feel part of something, a sense of belonging that is part of their personal identity; this implies a more intense emotional attachment, a source of sufficient motivation to invest part of their remaining energies and time in activities that do not generate money.
Members of a community feel that their well-being is directly linked to that of the community, and that this well-being warrants the establishment of common goals and the necessary activities to achieve them.
This combination of involvement, goals, and activities gives shape, relevance, and posterity to the time that community members spend together, which becomes a structure that accommodates all other processes that are part of daily life, creating a strong protective shield against the aggressive entry of technologies and, in turn, creating the opportunity to generate moments and experiences of high value.
To the extent that the community acquires factual and emotional value for each individual, each individual accepts, to a greater or lesser degree, giving way to their individual preferences, prejudices, and rejections for the sake of community well-being. This synergy allows for a very powerful exchange of information, emotions, wisdom, and experiences that create interpersonal bonds strong enough to dare to try to share the burden of such delicate topics as the parenting, nutrition, socialization, and associations of our children.
If I had talked about this a year ago, everyone would have looked at me like a madman, but what we know now motivates us to rethink everything and has helped you reach this point in the reading.
Every day that passes, more parents become aware of the need to act to counter the digitalization of consciousness.
However, we just don't have the time or focus; many of us are too involved in the scheme.
We have already overcome the hardest part, we have already seen each other's faces, we know who we are, we know we are not few, we know we have not only a motivation powered by infinite love, but very powerful ideas about "what needs to be done"...
If only we had the power to achieve it...
But we do have it...
...if we organize ourselves as a community whose sole objective is to create healthy children.
This is a raw and initial list of concrete ideas that can serve as a starting point for a more evolved organization:
Let's establish dates, times, and places for large gatherings in which organized activities aimed at growth will be developed, as well as spontaneous activities (parties, excursions, challenges) that strengthen emotional bonds.
One of the main advantages of working communally on all the activities we could think of is the parallel modality. While some members are carrying out adult tasks that require attention, others are simultaneously engaged in activities aimed at children.
This format, which is only possible within a community, enables the greatest number of parents to get involved in activities despite having to care for their children.
Among the organized activities that could be coherent, I can mention:
Workshops: Brief, playful, theoretical-practical training courses that help develop the personal power of children of different age groups, including: trades, manual, emotional, artistic, and spiritual skills; multiple topics, but always focusing on empowerment and consciousness.
Activities for parents: To address delicate, deep, or complex issues, from support groups to training.
Missions: Local outings to meet certain well-being challenges, such as cleaning, helping animal welfare associations, geriatric centers, etc.
Creating and maintaining a community garden could become a fundamental mixed activity that would allow children to get closer to the only undisputed reality of our life: our relationship with nature, and thus close the cycle and gain a much more powerful understanding of this world and, above all, of themselves and their creative powers. A close and complete relationship with nature allows the individual to regain memory, self-esteem, dignity, and faith, fundamental elements to develop to counteract technocratic alienation.
Community Meals: From bringing food, learning, and teaching to cooking together, again, in a parallel modality, a feasible and promising reality.
Grand Games: Long-term games that might involve role-playing, fulfilling challenges, competitions, solving enigmas, and developing story trips.
Entrepreneurships: The result of learning so many things together is undeniably putting it into practice, and if that is combined with the need to deal with the commercial world, nothing better than learning to start a business and doing it with friends from the same community.
Small activities: They don't always have to be about large groups; if our community has identity, and since we already have our single objective clear, any meeting between community members is beneficial, as long as something, a product of that meeting, serves to feed, inspire, and motivate the general community.
Let's designate leadership or facilitation roles that allow for the continuity of organized activities or projects. Some of these roles will be fixed and belong to the most committed members, others are circumstantial and vary between people and activities.
Let's create a community (not a group, note) on a digital messaging platform like WhatsApp (but I would prefer Telegram, due to its indisputable technical superiority) where information can be shared in an organized manner in different categories such as:
While this is an extremely delicate point that touches on intimate fibers, it is also one of the primary advantages or benefits that a community like the one I dream of could have.
The main limitations we encounter when applying the highest parenting advice are time and availability, which are fortunately not the same for everyone.
Imagine a small group of parents, acquaintances from the community, whom you are able to trust to stay with your children for a few hours a week, people who can guarantee them an enriching experience while you are busy, people whom you can then reciprocate by doing the same with their children.
Please understand that I am talking about an "ideal state", not something we would rush into doing or "in the name of the community," because the greatest work between here and that ideal state must be done by you, thoroughly deconstructing your fears and limitations when it comes to trusting others and contributing your best to children who are not yours.
The value of proposals like this is not only in the results but in the entire path of personal and communal growth that must be traveled to reach a state where this is possible.
Having a conversation about what each person should do to raise our children has its benefits, but having a conversation about what must be overcome to establish any form of shared parenting is a level up - a much deeper, requiring greater commitment and energy, and even enough to warrant exclusive group sessions dedicated to it.
Do not get stuck in the details; understand the scope of an idea like this; the objective is not simply to find someone to "leave your children with" for a few hours but to recover the social cohesion that we have lost at the hands of technological decay, which finds its most powerful ally in pathological individualism and therefore feeds it from all possible angles, to the point of having almost completely destroyed our ability to build realities together.
And THAT is what is at stake.
Do you see that it's not just about AI?
This is a very basic proposal that needs your contribution to be nourished, grow, and turn into facts.
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