Generally speaking, we’re stuck—if not degrading. Some small areas may be seeing progress, but overall our civilization has gained very little in recent decades.

Compare 70s, 80s, 90s. Such big jumps in progress even just visually. Cars, politics, technology.

Now check 00s, 10s, 20s. It’s all almost the same since start of 00s/end of 90s, but even worse. Internet, cars designs, no fresh political freedoms, etc.

Among the few new ideas, are you really sure you need all that AI slop in your life? Enshitification of everything, even american power?

It’s going to happen something really bad before people understand and reload.

Late stage capitalism’s core flaw is the relentless greedy pursuit of money and power, which erodes freedom. Without freedom, progress stalls; there’s no space or time to create.

Sometimes we still can make fancy things today, but most of them grew from a spirit of freedom and quality—not the corporate bloat that dominates too much.

That pursuit, that greed of capitalism, is something we need sometimes to speed things up. However, it’s also crucial to balance that with a proper understanding of human nature, society, the nature of restrictions and freedom.

And It’s always good to remember the downside of rapid advancement: pollution and entropy.

Intuition is, first and foremost, a feeling. It isn’t a mood or a whim, but a mind-sense—caught by opening inward, the way a faint scent is noticed before it’s named. Phenomenologically, it arrives pre-conceptually: a pressure toward “this is so” before reasons assemble. Epistemically, it is compressed knowledge—patterns distilled by memory, embodiment, and attention—unfolded later by analysis. In that sense intuition is a kind of time-reversed understanding: we know first; we explain after.

It sits just beyond ordinary consciousness yet within it, like the horizon is beyond you but still part of the sky you see. Because it is a feeling, it can be trained and it can mislead. Fear can masquerade as clarity; habit can echo as certainty. The task isn’t to worship intuition or to distrust it, but to calibrate it—through exposure to reality, honest feedback, and the discipline of asking, “What would make me wrong?”

Intuition is not the opposite of reason; it is reason’s scout. It ranges ahead, brings back a signal, and hands it to concepts for verification. When mature, it carries a signature: quiet, steady, un-dramatic. When immature, it shouts. Learn the difference, keep your attention open, and your intuitions become less like guesses and more like the mind’s sense of smell—subtle, swift, and surprisingly exact.

“Nevertheless, the ancient Greeks already knew that logical thinking is a structured process, to some extent governed by certain laws. These laws can be described. Aristotle systematized syllogisms, and Euclid—geometry; however, many centuries passed before an era of progress in the study of logical thinking arrived again.”

Analyzing history, I cannot help but feel my heart grow cold as I recall the many centuries of ignorance and the enslavement of the human spirit—beginning roughly with the so-called “birth” of Christ, that is, with the establishment of ideas harmful to reason and freedom: the dogmatic religions of Christianity, Islam, and the like. Combined with the ideas and fixations of settled life, and later with the development of feudalism and other structures, this shut out the light of a happy life and the prospects of knowledge for many, many years.

In this connection I always think of one thing: surely there will come another “darkening”—whether from late stage capitalism, or from “too fast” accelerated technologies (technological progress always brings more freedom and happiness in distance, but at certain stages, it can lead to the exploitation and dishonest of many people). Or perhaps from something else, such as new ideas about power cults. After all, people in their nature tend to look to take as much as possible, which is like laziness: it’s a natural mechanism of energy to which we should somehow resist to maintain balance in everything else.

Seeing today how people, by and large, so easily “become enslaved,” how readily they submit to any foolishness, how rotten the whole system of today’s world has become, I grow all the more skeptical that times of darkness will not return—they will.

I have no doubt this is largely due to the ossification of the fundamental structures of human settlement and community, combined with a general tendency to seek the easiest path—though true ease lies not in what appears easiest at first, but in what proves easier when seen in perspective.

Therefore I ask everyone, insofar as possible: remain free; look around attentively; do not believe every pronouncement—even (and especially) if it is shouted loudly; do not settle in too rigidly or dogmatically; do not cement yourself to any single place or tribe; preserve flexibility and mobility—in body and in soul—so that it will be easier to resist and to develop.

And in the depths of your soul, always stay warm toward other people—more honestly: in your depths you are warm, after all; and then you will be warmer toward yourself and toward everyone, because ultimately we are something together, not apart.

God is within us: it’s the reason’s concept of the absolute ideal—it attempts to rectify its inherent “cause-seeking” mechanisms;

it’s also a fusion of some of the reason’s most profound concepts: infinity, perfection; originally conceived through reflections of reality’s experience.

God is not something that exists outside in space. We have neither seen nor experienced anything there that would justify speaking of it in such a manner.

Manipulating ideas like a dogmatic “God” that supposedly “explains” everything breeds illusions and prolongs ignorance.

We really don’t know much—the world is complicated—and we should accept that.

What truly matters to us is the mind, the models and reflections of reality it holds and perceive. Focus on mind and our human way: by attending to their actual nature, we can unlock higher-quality real experience that leads to genuine improvement and gives new experiences.

In turn, these experiences may open real avenues to what lies beyond our universe and spacetime.

A wise person would not be just a perfectionist aesthete; wisdom must not only perceive beauty, such as order, but also recognize the realities and essence of destruction and war. Everything in this world has its place, whether we like it or not.

In any flow, whether aesthetics, ethics, or politics, the truth of things demands that the subject be aware of all the sides.

Conflict and complexity spark motion, edge, and interest. It’s naive to wish for perfect calm and smoothness—human’s story isn’t like that.
When you run into the stupid, the dreadful, or the absurd, that’s needed too.
The main thing is to spot the contrasts correctly: someone who hasn’t taken in the bad can’t truly understand the good.

The acceptance of any recommendation — whether good or bad — is often shaped not by conscious evaluation, but by the brain’s tendency toward cognitive economy.
It seeks to conserve energy, simplify effort, and reduce complexity wherever possible.

That is simply how nature has shaped it.

But this built-in bias has many unintended consequences.
We must constantly remember that our conscious self is only a small part of the brain’s total activity.
Much of what drives us lies beneath awareness, beyond direct control.

The brain’s impulse to minimize effort doesn’t stop at skipping tasks — it shapes perception, reasoning, even belief.
It takes shortcuts. It fills in gaps.
And in doing so, it often misleads us — and even misleads itself.
This is the hidden cost of efficiency: a mind that confuses ease with truth.