One of the most useful framework in my spiritual journey is @TheKenWilber’s: . Wake up — Seeing that there is a higher consciousness. Grow up — Maturing one’s views to be able to hold multiplicity of truths. Clean up — Healing and integrating any shadows (parts in ourselves, and.

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The best measure of realization is conduct.

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“Most of the commercialization of meditation doesn’t mention the goal, which is the heart of this, which is awakening.” - Dan Brown.

If we lose the ability to speak across difference, to appeal to something beyond identity, to forgive, to rebuild. then yes, the West risks devouring itself in cycles of moral warfare.

Wokeness is moral absolutism that feels religious but without forgiveness, grace, or transcendence. Once labeled oppressor, one cannot escape through action, only through perpetual confession and deference. It risks becoming not liberation, but social control.

This is my prompt for an LLM history & culture tutor

Barzun ends on a quiet note. He doesn’t predict what comes next. He just reminds us: new eras don’t begin when the old finally dies. They begin when someone gets tired of the repetition. And offers a project worth following.

And yet, people sense the absence. That’s why there’s so much hunger for myth, for collapse, for prophecy, for belonging. In the absence of a shared future, any narrative will do. Even apocalyptic ones.

The consequences aren’t always dramatic. More often they’re ambient. Ambition flattens into optimization. Critique becomes brand. Movements become vibes. Talent circulates with nowhere to go.

This is why nothing feels real. Not because it’s fake but because it’s disconnected. Policy doesn’t lead to governance. Art doesn’t lead to meaning. Science doesn’t lead to worldview. Everything’s siloed. Nothing builds.

In a vibrant culture, disagreement is still part of the same conversation. In a decadent one, there’s no conversation. Just content streams. The physicist, the artist, the priest, the citizen, the CEO. they no longer live in the same symbolic world.

Barzun doesn’t reduce it to economics or moral failing. Decadence, for him, is when the motivating energies of a culture flicker out but the rituals remain. You still get universities, movements, content, innovation. But no common direction.

Not just politics. A shared project means a deep structure. something people across classes, disciplines, and regions orient around, even when they’re in conflict. Renaissance. Nationhood. Industrialization. Modernism. Each offered a different telos. We’re post-telos now.

Reading From Dawn to Decadence clarified something I’ve been circling for years:. The defining trait of a decadent society isn’t excess or decline. It’s the absence of a shared project.

Decadent societies lack a shared project or ideal that unites people across classes, regions, and disciplines.

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Everyone wants to build the future. But the deepest act of building has always been this: choosing to continue. My @PirateWires essay on fertility collapse, culture, and desire.