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Against the Myth of God-Like AGI

The essay critiques the myth of “God-like” AGI promoted by tech oligarchs, arguing that claims of objective, cosmopolitan AI serve to mask the cultural, economic, and political interests embedded in its design. Drawing on neuroscience and the recognition loop, it shows that each culture is defined by unique neural patterns, making genuine universal objectivity impossible for any AGI. The essay calls for radical pluralism, transparency, and democratic oversight, proposing a system of multiple, culturally rooted intelligences instead of a single, dominant authority. Only by exposing biases and enabling contestation can AGI serve humanity rather than deepen existing hierarchies of power.

May 27, 2025 Philosophy / Psychology

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Can Self-Awareness Change Evolution?

Humanity’s greatest technological feats—from rockets to Mars to global communication networks—have not freed us from the ancient, unconscious drive for recognition that shapes status, competition, and conflict. While the evolution of deep self-awareness allows us to reflect, plan, and innovate, it also enables us to rationalize and amplify our need for approval, often fueling war, anxiety, and overconsumption. Eidoism proposes a new evolutionary step: not just seeing this hidden recognition loop, but actively intervening to control it at both personal and societal levels. If humanity can collectively recognize and master this loop, we may finally shift from being products of blind evolution to conscious agents of our own destiny—changing the rules of survival, cooperation, and meaning itself.

May 27, 2025 Form Economy / Breaking Form

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Why No Society Escapes Oligarchy, Collapse, or Exploitation

Every attempt to build a fair society—from revolutionary socialism to modern capitalist reforms—has been undone by a deeper, rarely recognized force: the demand for recognition. Rooted in human evolution, this neural drive for status and validation creates new elites and hierarchies, no matter how wealth and power are redistributed. Like the tragic experiments of “mouse utopia,” where abundance led not to harmony but to social collapse, human societies become trapped in cycles of competition, exclusion, and breakdown. The only path to lasting fairness is not another structural reform, but a cultural shift: widespread awareness of the recognition loop and a new way of valuing form, contribution, and humility over endless status-seeking.

May 24, 2025 Seeing the Loop / Hypocrisy

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The Recognition Loop and the Return of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg’s journey from political stardom to scandal and exile, and now to a calculated public return, offers a profound case study in the relentless human demand for recognition. This essay explores how Guttenberg’s hidden ambition to become Federal Chancellor is driven by the inescapable “recognition loop”—a self-reinforcing cycle of social validation and personal identity. Rather than breaking free after his downfall, Guttenberg’s appetite for recognition has only intensified, exemplifying how public figures are often unable, and perhaps unwilling, to exit the loop that defines their sense of worth.

May 20, 2025 Psychology / Seeing the Loop

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Why Do I Always Feel Left Out? – FOMO

Why do so many of us feel invisible or left out, especially in a world where everyone else seems to belong? This post uncovers the hidden root of that nagging sense of exclusion—not just missed experiences, but the universal hunger for recognition. Through the lens of Eidoism, discover how to break the loop of social comparison and finally find fulfillment from within, free from the tyranny of digital anxiety and the endless chase for validation.

May 18, 2025 Breaking Form / Power Mirrors

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Dangerous Games in the Baltic

An escalating conflict in the Baltic Sea has led to unprecedented military standoffs, as European navies move to enforce sanctions and Russian oil tankers sail under international flags with navy escorts. This scenario highlights how the pursuit of symbolic dominance and recognition loops is breaking the structural form needed for stability, risking military confrontation, economic disruption, and ecological harm. Eidoism calls for a return to structural rationality—prioritizing shared needs, de-escalation, and form-based solutions over status-driven escalation.

May 18, 2025 Psychology

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Beyond Freud’s Libido

This essay reinterprets Freud’s psychoanalytic theory through the lens of the neural demand for recognition—a key mechanism Freud could not see with the tools of his time. By replacing sexuality with recognition as the primary psychic switch, we uncover a deeper understanding of narcissism, the Oedipus complex, the superego, and neurosis. Eidoism, a contemporary philosophical framework, builds on Freud’s insights while correcting his misattributions, offering a structural path beyond the loop of recognition that drives modern suffering.

May 17, 2025 Psychology / Built by Performance

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The Psychological Power of Fashion

Fashion is far more than clothing—it’s a psychological force that shapes identity, mood, and social behavior across the globe. This essay explores how fashion taps into deep-rooted human needs: the demand for recognition, the desire to belong, the regulation of mood, and the construction of the ideal self. From tribal signaling to dopamine-fueled shopping loops, fashion manipulates and mirrors the mind. Understanding these mechanisms reveals how clothing can empower or imprison the self, and why breaking fashion’s mental grip is essential for psychological freedom.

May 17, 2025 Form Economy

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Educated into the Loop

Modern higher education promises enlightenment but often serves as a vehicle for social distinction and symbolic superiority. While human brains share equal potential, education becomes a privilege that structures access to recognition-based labor hierarchies. This essay explores how education feeds the loop of recognition, why highly educated individuals rarely perform low-status work, and how a new value system—guided by Eidoism—can realign education and labor with structural contribution rather than social performance.

May 17, 2025 Form Economy

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What It Feels Like to Be Poor

To be poor is more than lacking money — it is to be excluded from security, dignity, and recognition. Yet poverty feels different across the world: in the U.S., it brings shame; in Vietnam, it may carry quiet pride. This essay explores how cultural expectations, digital comparison, and economic systems shape the emotional and structural experience of poverty — and how global inequality is not only endured but felt.

May 16, 2025 Form Economy

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Tax–Beyond Redistribution

Eidoism redefines taxation on the rich not as redistribution for moral balance but as a structural correction to systemic excess. Wealth is not condemned, but must be aligned with necessity and form. Tax becomes a tool to dismantle recognition-based accumulation and re-anchor value in functional participation, not symbolic success.

May 16, 2025 Form Economy

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Reframing Capital

n a world where labor remains trapped in linear exchange and capital accumulates without limit, Eidoism proposes a radical shift: dissolve monetary value, exit recognition-driven economies, and replace capital with structure. Through a crypto-based barter system powered by non-accumulative Form Credits, Eidoism enables a flow of goods and services based on necessity, not profit. This new economy is being prototyped in Vietnam, where simple, decentralized exchanges challenge the foundation of ownership, performance, and growth.