Mental legacy leads to Artificial Stupidity

Let’s rape the tale of an ended love story and turn it into a hallucination for the future. Noel Gallagher sings in “Don’t look back in Anger”:
Slip inside the eye of your mind,
Don’t you know you might find
A better place to play
You said that you’d never been
But all the things that you’ve seen
Will slowly fade away
The meaning of these lyrics is a favourite subject for debate, discussion, fights and controversy, thanks partly to Noel Gallagher claiming he doesn’t know what the lyrics mean and was given from above. However, the first lines are an excellent starting point for discussing the mental legacy of the Western World.

Legacy is often used in IT to refer to old shit that prevents you from moving forward. Just deal with it. Legacy systems contain valuable information and procedures. They work, but only a few people, if any at all, know exactly how they work. That’s legacy. Now mental legacy.

Slip inside the eye of your mind.
Great line, fluid in meaning and a great starting point for a mindful exercise. As said, we are dealing with the mental legacy of the Western World. There are two numbers of great importance for the Western mindset: 1989 and 2022.
In 1989 we saw the Berlin Wall coming down, ending the Cold War and dismantling the Iron Curtain. It inspired Francis Fukuyama to write “ The End of History?” in the summer of 1989: “What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalisation of Western Liberal Democracy as the final form of human government”. Later he would write a book about it, and much later, he more or less apologised for his opportunistic train of thought. However, we should thank him for reflecting the eye of our mind of those days. That was in 1989. Thirty-three years later, in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and brought this Western view on reality out of balance.

In the 33 years between 1989 and 2022, we focused on economic growth and prosperity for everybody. It was one…