Congratulations, if you are reading this, that means you have won the sperm race.
I would love to take as much time to celebrate this incredible fact. However, there is something more important I want to address in the next 500 words or so.
Our collective future is at stake. The success of modern science at gaining knowledge of nature and control over it has been spectacular. However, our scientific civilization confronts an inescapable calamity of its own creation, transforming culture and its material basis faster than at any other time in human history.
I may not perhaps be forgiven for introducing such sober matters with a frivolous notion, but we live in a time of unusual insecurity. In the past decade or so, many long established traditions have broken down, traditions of family and social life, of the economic order, and of belief religious or not. The 00s is an interesting decade to be born, we grow up knowing the smell of soil after rain, but as the years go by, there seem to be fewer and fewer rocks to which we can hold under the fast cascade of media driven by the distorted economic order, fewer things which we can regard as absolutely right and true, and fixed for all time.
To most, this seems to be a welcome release from the straints of moral, social, and spiritual dogma. But to our collective future, it is a breach with reason and sanity, tending to plunge the project of civilisation.
I believe we need nothing short of a new worldview.
Those with the perspicacity in these times are the few who understand the essence across the disciplines of tech and the arts, and of those, even fewer would understand its significance, and in those lie the responsibility in shaping the future of the human project.
With AI on the rise, it accelerates whether we will go down an era of automation with the return of the olympic ordeals or a totalitarian regime.
One needs to make only one choice in one lifetime, and that is to live a life for the self or for the alter. Most narratives I've heard in the media are pointing to anxiety associated with the prior.
On a personal note, success came from long years of simple, lengthy, and tedious steps that are not so apparent to where they will lead, but had to take in blind faith, questioning the cornerstones even in the most devastating situations.
Most opportunities are as random as Brownian motion, and could be as rare as neutrinos setting off Cherenkov light under Antarctic ice sheets.
Unconsciously knowing my choice of “alter” as early as my teenage years gave me the perspicacity to know most written paths are not enough for my joi de vivre, which I only now have enough context to write into words.
However, especially since my time in America, I couldn't help but realise how, by continuing to climb further up the ladder, I am walking further away from the life I would personally enjoy most.
So one may ask if such is the case, why I am still pressing onward.
Perhaps, the answer is as simple as I have chosen the “alter”.
Perhaps, the word passion itself stems from the Greek word na πάσχω, which means to suffer.
Perhaps, it's the sense of responsibility.
- Gavin O Marios
Abide by no laws but the laws of physics.
The Earth will have a second moon.