Everything flows. Life’s goal is never an arrival. It’s to keep changing until we become capable of even more change. Such flexibility is the source of sustainability across our biology, individuality and society.
Progress can be organic when we try out different lives. With identity held softly, we can experiment with temporary social systems. That is how we rewrite the old rules we play by and grow human movement.
A few centuries ago, the act of commerce was considered parasitic. Agrarians did not see the value in moving things around and charging extra. Now, capitalism generates the most information about society.
Inevitably, modern society became satiated with material affluence. Markets are selling more decadence than progress. Lack of meaning is cornering people into mental conditions and political cannibalism.
Meanwhile, machine intelligence frees the human body from labour. We are one step away from solving the most pressing problems or becoming the problem itself. This is the time for a new foundation.