This age craves a Lincoln-like figure, who can steer the country through intense polarization

Whether by melancholia or meditation, the leader needs to discern truth through aloneness, while still heeding the crowds (or the group chats)

I worry, though, that we lack the spiritual infrastructure to allow such a leader to emerge

friendly neighborhood shitcaster / building @pinetree

I wonder what happens if science proves without a doubt there's a God

elementary forces -> nucleosynthesis (including triple-alpha for hydrocarbon bubbles) -> endosymbiotic genesis -> proxemics forcing sight forcing cephalization forcing cooperative breeding around longer maturation period -> shared vocalization / imitation forcing toolmaking -> mass media for semi-permanent information -> superintelligent orthodoxy -> superintelligent computation -> digitally explainable egregore

but there could also be a teapot orbiting the Sun between Earth and Mars, not enough information to conclude one way or the other.

𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖆𝖉 𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆