' What we're witnessing isn't just technological advancement - it's what Ivan Illich called iatrogenic dependency in his seminal work, Medical Nemesis.
Illich coined this term for medicine - institutions that promise to heal while creating new forms of illness - but the pattern applies perfectly to AI as well.
That's exactly what I'd been sensing about these new tools - it promises to enhance our cognitive abilities while systematically weakening them.
It's not the hostile takeover science fiction warned us about.
It's the quiet erosion of individual capacity disguised as help. '
— stylman.substack.com/p/riding-the-wave
t.me/IntuitiveAI/791
Illich coined this term for medicine - institutions that promise to heal while creating new forms of illness - but the pattern applies perfectly to AI as well.
That's exactly what I'd been sensing about these new tools - it promises to enhance our cognitive abilities while systematically weakening them.
It's not the hostile takeover science fiction warned us about.
It's the quiet erosion of individual capacity disguised as help. '
— stylman.substack.com/p/riding-the-wave
t.me/IntuitiveAI/791
Substack
Riding the Wave
AI, Inevitability, and Human Sovereignty
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'USB A: The classic rectangular plug we all know—found on almost every computer and wall charger block.
USB B: The square-ish, boxy connector usually reserved for printers and scanners.
USB MINI: An older standard often seen on vintage digital cameras, old MP3 players, and some external hard drives.
USB MICRO: The standard for years on older Android phones, Bluetooth speakers, and power banks (it has the little hooks on one side).
USB C: The new universal king! It’s oval-shaped, reversible (no more flipping it three times to plug it in), and handles super-fast data and power.
Lightning: Apple’s signature connector for iPhones and older iPads (before the switch to USB-C).'
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USB B: The square-ish, boxy connector usually reserved for printers and scanners.
USB MINI: An older standard often seen on vintage digital cameras, old MP3 players, and some external hard drives.
USB MICRO: The standard for years on older Android phones, Bluetooth speakers, and power banks (it has the little hooks on one side).
USB C: The new universal king! It’s oval-shaped, reversible (no more flipping it three times to plug it in), and handles super-fast data and power.
Lightning: Apple’s signature connector for iPhones and older iPads (before the switch to USB-C).'
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' J R R Tolkien’s dislike of Disney was not casual, and it did not come from jealousy or trend resistance.
It began in 1937. That year, Tolkien published The Hobbit, a carefully constructed myth shaped by language, history, and moral weight. Just months later, Disney released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first animated feature film of its kind. The timing unsettled him.
Tolkien watched the film with his close friend C S Lewis. Neither was impressed.
What Tolkien saw was not technical failure. He recognized Disney’s talent immediately. What disturbed him was intent. Fairy tales, in Tolkien’s view, were not decorative entertainment. They were ancient tools meant to confront fear, loss, danger, and moral consequence. Disney’s approach transformed those elements into sentiment, humor, and spectacle designed for universal consumption.
That transformation felt like corruption to him.
In a letter written in 1964, Tolkien stated plainly that Disney’s talent seemed hopelessly corrupted. He believed that any story Disney touched risked being flattened into something moral but shallow, visually rich but spiritually thin. Clear villains replaced moral ambiguity. Dark edges became soft conclusions. Myth was reduced to amusement.
This was not personal hatred. It was philosophical opposition.
Disney believed stories reached their highest purpose when simplified for mass audiences. Tolkien believed stories gained power only when they retained shadows, complexity, and danger. One tried to modernize myth. The other tried to protect it from modernity.
This belief shaped Tolkien’s resistance to film adaptation throughout his life. He feared that cinematic convenience would erase the depth he had built word by word.
For Tolkien, mythology was not meant to be improved. It was meant to be preserved.
When stories lose their darkness, do they still deserve to be called myth. '
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It began in 1937. That year, Tolkien published The Hobbit, a carefully constructed myth shaped by language, history, and moral weight. Just months later, Disney released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first animated feature film of its kind. The timing unsettled him.
Tolkien watched the film with his close friend C S Lewis. Neither was impressed.
What Tolkien saw was not technical failure. He recognized Disney’s talent immediately. What disturbed him was intent. Fairy tales, in Tolkien’s view, were not decorative entertainment. They were ancient tools meant to confront fear, loss, danger, and moral consequence. Disney’s approach transformed those elements into sentiment, humor, and spectacle designed for universal consumption.
That transformation felt like corruption to him.
In a letter written in 1964, Tolkien stated plainly that Disney’s talent seemed hopelessly corrupted. He believed that any story Disney touched risked being flattened into something moral but shallow, visually rich but spiritually thin. Clear villains replaced moral ambiguity. Dark edges became soft conclusions. Myth was reduced to amusement.
This was not personal hatred. It was philosophical opposition.
Disney believed stories reached their highest purpose when simplified for mass audiences. Tolkien believed stories gained power only when they retained shadows, complexity, and danger. One tried to modernize myth. The other tried to protect it from modernity.
This belief shaped Tolkien’s resistance to film adaptation throughout his life. He feared that cinematic convenience would erase the depth he had built word by word.
For Tolkien, mythology was not meant to be improved. It was meant to be preserved.
When stories lose their darkness, do they still deserve to be called myth. '
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t.me/IntuitiveSpace/628
' 1979: A computer can never be held accountable,
therefore a computer must never make a management decision.
2025: A computer can never be held accountable,
therefore a computer must make all the management decisions. '
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therefore a computer must never make a management decision.
2025: A computer can never be held accountable,
therefore a computer must make all the management decisions. '
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We are always finding ourselves startled by how these kinds of exploitation can hide or be embedded in processes and activities and opportunities that have been made very normal in so many of our environments...
...so that people don't even look closely enough at it to realize how dangerous some of those traps can be.
...so that people don't even look closely enough at it to realize how dangerous some of those traps can be.
There's a tremendous amount of this in the usual everyday kinds of social media marketing that's going on.
One of the conversations we are having a lot more recently and for a long time is about...
...what are the options for content-based income generation?
And where are there seeming opportunities that end up taking more from a person than they realize might occur?
One of the conversations we are having a lot more recently and for a long time is about...
...what are the options for content-based income generation?
And where are there seeming opportunities that end up taking more from a person than they realize might occur?
It's been especially tricky for us to find strong, clear ways of communicating about the role of neurological injury and physical disablement in how people are drawn into situations that feel like opportunities at the time.
But then they find they cannot get out of those situations when they realize that it wasn't so good an opportunity as they thought at first.
But then they find they cannot get out of those situations when they realize that it wasn't so good an opportunity as they thought at first.
An example is how people are drawn to digital platforms, social media platforms, to learn how to make money from producing content and to share content in specific ways that they learn from those platforms.
And because they're having to work so hard to get the body to do the things that the body needs to do with that digital platform in order to make that content, in order to execute that marketing model in that particular way...
...the body is committing a massive amount of energy and intention and concentration — neurological function —to executing those tasks.
And because the body has to invest so much physical capacity in doing that... if a person is already at some kind of deficit in function... if a person is already in a vulnerable position, if that person does not have their needs met abundantly...
...then that investment of neurological function to get the body to work in those ways can end up being the only ways that the body remembers how to try to get the body's needs met.
And because they're having to work so hard to get the body to do the things that the body needs to do with that digital platform in order to make that content, in order to execute that marketing model in that particular way...
...the body is committing a massive amount of energy and intention and concentration — neurological function —to executing those tasks.
And because the body has to invest so much physical capacity in doing that... if a person is already at some kind of deficit in function... if a person is already in a vulnerable position, if that person does not have their needs met abundantly...
...then that investment of neurological function to get the body to work in those ways can end up being the only ways that the body remembers how to try to get the body's needs met.
And the person can have a very difficult time — or maybe an impossible time — trying to remember how to use other skills, how to use other functions.
So that by the time they may realize that the process they've invested themselves in has hidden costs that make it not possible for them to do it in a successful way, and that make it not possible for them to generate enough more resources from doing that...
...they may find that they can't think of any other option anymore.
The brain and the body are too tired from having worked so hard to try to do what they've been doing.
And this kind of mechanism, this kind of scenario, we see repeated across many, many different forms of human trafficking...
...the forms of trafficking that people recognize more immediately...
...and also many forms of trafficking that people don't realize is trafficking until they are so deep in it that they don't know how to get out and they don't know how to protect themselves.
So that by the time they may realize that the process they've invested themselves in has hidden costs that make it not possible for them to do it in a successful way, and that make it not possible for them to generate enough more resources from doing that...
...they may find that they can't think of any other option anymore.
The brain and the body are too tired from having worked so hard to try to do what they've been doing.
And this kind of mechanism, this kind of scenario, we see repeated across many, many different forms of human trafficking...
...the forms of trafficking that people recognize more immediately...
...and also many forms of trafficking that people don't realize is trafficking until they are so deep in it that they don't know how to get out and they don't know how to protect themselves.
This is one of the many reasons that Intuitive Network architecture focuses on how we build content-based income streams for communities and for our collaborative groups...
...and then gradually, more and more, for each individual that wants to have charge of their own personal professional income generating platform.
Because when we build platforms that are totally ours, and we're not outsourcing the structure of how we generate content and how we support flows of income on the basis of that content, we can ensure that our work will not traffic us.
And the alternative, almost all the time, is that the options out there for content-based income streams describe various hidden situations, or even not so hidden situations, of what is essentially human trafficking.
...and then gradually, more and more, for each individual that wants to have charge of their own personal professional income generating platform.
Because when we build platforms that are totally ours, and we're not outsourcing the structure of how we generate content and how we support flows of income on the basis of that content, we can ensure that our work will not traffic us.
And the alternative, almost all the time, is that the options out there for content-based income streams describe various hidden situations, or even not so hidden situations, of what is essentially human trafficking.
We also often like to think of a person's content as being similar or the same as a person's biological data, a person's life processes.
And when medical interests are extracting a massive amount of data from vulnerable people in healthcare systems who don't know enough about how that data is monetized to realize how much money... huge amounts of money... is being generated from the sharing of data.
That data, and the buying and selling and reselling and reselling, repackaging and reselling of that data.
It's something that is people's lives, that is people's selves and people's creative selves, people's innovative selves...
...the body being innovative on a foundational level...
...how life energy fuels the life processes of the body...
...how the body heals from something, how the body makes adjustments to navigate a really challenging circumstance...
...how the body adapts...
...how the physiology moves in a particular way...
...all of these things about the body are so sacred.
And they're part of a material creative process of the body.
Just like creating content for a social media platform involves a certain level of creativity in how one speaks or how one sings or how one tells a story.
And when medical interests are extracting a massive amount of data from vulnerable people in healthcare systems who don't know enough about how that data is monetized to realize how much money... huge amounts of money... is being generated from the sharing of data.
That data, and the buying and selling and reselling and reselling, repackaging and reselling of that data.
It's something that is people's lives, that is people's selves and people's creative selves, people's innovative selves...
...the body being innovative on a foundational level...
...how life energy fuels the life processes of the body...
...how the body heals from something, how the body makes adjustments to navigate a really challenging circumstance...
...how the body adapts...
...how the physiology moves in a particular way...
...all of these things about the body are so sacred.
And they're part of a material creative process of the body.
Just like creating content for a social media platform involves a certain level of creativity in how one speaks or how one sings or how one tells a story.
And we know that bodies are most strong and healthy and resilient...
...when our stories and our life energy are shared in contexts where those stories and that life energy are truly honored and respected.
In relational integrity.
In esteem for one another.
In a desire to treat one another well, and the desire for all of us to have our needs met as part of the care and belonging we experience in the social fabric.
...when our stories and our life energy are shared in contexts where those stories and that life energy are truly honored and respected.
In relational integrity.
In esteem for one another.
In a desire to treat one another well, and the desire for all of us to have our needs met as part of the care and belonging we experience in the social fabric.
And yet most places we look... if you're talking about content-based income or any of the many other forms of income... we're seeing that the true social fabric is missing.
We're seeing that that integrity of true relationship is missing, seeing that it has been extensively popularized to take advantage of one another because that's just business and how business is done.
We're seeing that that integrity of true relationship is missing, seeing that it has been extensively popularized to take advantage of one another because that's just business and how business is done.