While running towards a technological summit, humanity is being dragged into a spiritual void, that is, into an alienation “without emotion and without conscience”. My analyses on “The Hegemony of Capital and Technology over States” and “Techno-feudalism” clearly chart the course of this “run”.
The picture we face today can be summarized under a few basic headings:
1-The Domination of Algorithms and the Loss of Emotion:
Human relationships are now entrusted to screens and algorithms. We are losing our ability to “understand” and “feel” for the sake of efficiency and speed. Sociologically, the individual is no longer a “subject” but an “object” for data mining. This leads to the replacement of conscience with a cold and mechanical calculus of profit and loss.
2-Techno-Feudalism and New Slavery:
Digital platforms have turned into new fiefdoms. Humanity runs around these platforms as “voluntary slaves”. In this order where labor is devalued and capital transcends physical borders and establishes a hegemony over states, collective values such as solidarity and conscience are overshadowed by individual competition.
3-Value Cancellation of Conscience:
The global system feeds insensitivity by turning tragedies into “statistics” or “content”. The drama at one end of the world is passed over with a scroll at the other. This dulls the reflex of compassion in the social fabric. (The mass graves of 168 girls in Iran are treated as casualties of war)
4-“Manifesto of Production” and the Way Out:
But despite the pessimistic picture, the “Production Manifesto” that we have already emphasized could be a brake on this blind course. An understanding that puts the human being back at the center of production, nature and morality:
The Cycle at Peace with Nature: Just like your approach to olive trees, to grow them without exploiting them.
The Dignity of Dignity: Making values that money cannot buy (honor and dignity) the basis of the social contract again.
As a result, humanity has entered a spiral of numbness as it has become a cog in the wheel of the tools it possesses (technology and capital) instead of being the master of them. This fast running seems to be not a “progress” but an “escape” that alienates the self.