Roger a pethybridge

sometimes I notice things and wonder if other people notice them too?

[Roger a pethybridge @PethybridgeR]

Micro-shifting is happing in Silicon Valley from "can we build it?" to "what's it doing to us?". It's a move from metrics to meaning. Altman (OpenAI), Collison (Stripe) Harris (ex-Google) are all naming it. This isn’t burnout. It’s meaning-loss, finally said out loud.

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A lot of today’s culture wars are presented under the guise of “values,” but they’re really about authority.
Who gets to define what’s true, harmful, good or real?
That’s why debates feel endless. They’re not just disagreements; they’re jurisdiction fights.

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We’re told we should be morally advanced by now, yet we’re not. Morality isn’t like technology where upgrades prevent regression. Knowledge moves fast, virtue doesn’t. Without forming the soul, we don’t progress, we just modernize old sins more “intelligently”.

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Once human nature stopped being something to discover and became something to construct,
(from Aquinas → Enlightenment → Freud)
freedom changed shape...
A self without a given nature must constantly justify its own existence, which is disorienting.

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Cultural theorist Bhabha argued that identity forms in the in-between: cultural edges (experience, pressure, politics, technology, and desire.)

Christianity enters the space with a surprising claim: you don’t invent yourself at the edges. You receive it at the center in Christ.

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Modern culture didn’t lose faith; it relocated it. Transcendence didn’t disappear…it was reassigned to the self, the market, or history. What we call “secular” is often just older religious longings wearing new clothes.

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Some secular thinkers (from Alain Ehrenberg to Žižek) are right:
constant self-expression doesn’t produce freedom; it produces anxiety.
It’s striking how often modern critiques rediscover truths Christianity named long ago.

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https://t.co/iR1m8GQKS7

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Modern martyrdom doesn’t bleed — it burns out.
72 hours. No rest. No life outside the grind.
They call it 996.
Jesus calls it slavery.
996 culture (9am–9pm, 6 days/wk) is trending again in Silicon Valley, marketed as noble sacrifice.

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Emma's theory is the 996 culture are literally not thinking straight their brains may have been altered by the very grind they promote, and that those invested in hustle culture may be clinging harder than ever, creating a temporary intensification before it collapses.

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You don’t just need a better life—you need a bigger story. Here is the article I am referencing: https://t.co/joTTaH0TWT

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We’ve sequenced the human genome, mapped the brain, and built AI—but we still don’t know what a “good life” is. Maybe we’re asking the wrong questions...🧵1/4

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Yes, we need epistemic humility. But the idea that we must remain perpetually “tentative and nebulous” about human purpose is a symptom of a culture that has lost the metaphysical map. Metamodernism gestures toward transcendence—Christianity names the Source: Jesus....4/4