Well i think that western society has a lot of problems, and one of the grave ones is the moralizing stance that “knowledge is good” that was taken over from christianity. In christianity, the bird represents knowledge, and in the story of the world’s creation, the snake (which represents lust) walks up to the human, scares the bird sitting in the holy tree away, and that causes disaster. Ever since then, christianity has condemned lust and favoured knowledge.

We still have that attitude in our society. Children are trimmed into going to school, after that going to more school, after that going to even more school. Young people spend 18 years of their life in school. Children are told as long as they study, they’re going to have good prospects on the job market. And now all of that comes crashing down when AI replaces white-collar workers. That’s part of the crisis.

The solution would of course be to develop true (proper) far-sightedness and develop plans and lifestyle for the next 10000 years.