Snippets i found interesting (by laura knight-jadczyk)

The recurring pattern of "Babel" throughout history

Every time a civilization reaches

a certain level of technological and organizational power, it attempts to:

• erase natural distinctions (nations, sexes, languages, religions),

• create a universal artificial language (Esperanto, Newspeak, Globish, programming languages, woke terminology, AI prompt engineering),

• build a single "tower" (ziggurat, skyscraper, internet, metaverse, centralized digital identity, neuralink) that reaches into heaven, … and every time, the result is not unity but a new and deeper confusion — a hyper-fragmentation disguised as universality.

Are we living in an age of extreme Babel right now?

Yes — and arguably the most extreme in history. Here's why:

• Technological pseudo-unity: Everyone on earth is now connected by one digital "tower" (the internet + smartphones + AI translation). In theory we have more language unity than ever before (Google Translate, machine translation, emojis, memes). In practice we have never been less able to understand each other.

• Deliberate confusion of language: Terms no longer have stable meanings ("woman," "recession," "vaccine," "racism," "disinformation," "genocide," "marriage," "violence"). Political tribes literally use the same words to mean opposite things.

• Controlled fragmentation: Algorithms feed each person a personalized reality. Ten people can read the "same" news article and come away with ten incompatible interpretations because the comments, related articles, and fact-check overlays are all different.

• Compelled speech + cancellation: The new empire demands you speak its artificial, constantly shifting language (pronouns, acronyms, euphemisms) on pain of social death — exactly like Newspeak in 1984, but decentralized and gamified.

• Loss of transcendence: When there is no shared story about God or ultimate meaning, every subculture builds its own mini-tower (fandoms, ideologies, identity groups), producing thousands of mutually unintelligible tongues.

We have simultaneously the most universal technical language ever created and the deepest spiritual and semantic confusion ever recorded. That is peak Babel. 

"Babel" at the deepest level means the prideful quest for godlike unity without God, which always ends in divinely (or karmically) imposed confusion. We are not merely witnessing that confusion today; we are inside the final chapters of a new Tower whose top is already cracking.

Question:
"So, knowledge and light are like the gas for the car, but speed comes from utilization?"

Fråga:
"Så kunskap och ljus är som bensin för bilen, men hastigheten kommer från användningen?"