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It’s literally called impersonalism, as in the impersonalist understanding of value. Again, the key idea is that we are just means to an end. The only end is value, this abstract yet quantifiable concept that should be maximized to the physical cosmic limits. We matter only as the conduits through which this value can come into existence. That idea is integral to the TESCREAL movement.
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
jacobin.com
Unlike basic needs (food, shelter and sex), our wants are not instinctual but instead fall under mimetic desire. We follow people who show us what is worth wanting.
René Girard’s Mimetic Theory Changed the Way I Looked at My Own Desires.
Mo Issa
C. S. Lewis wrote in 1948 when global nuclear annihilation seemed like a real possibility: “If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things … not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.”
A Techno Optimist’s Guide to Raising Kids for the Age of AI
Benjamin Wallace
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