Former private equity underwriter (PEU), U.S. Senator and College President Ben Sasse believes TechGods usurping of God's various realms will bring challenges but eventually pave the way for a renewed community based on family, neighbor and a spiritual rebirth which respects faiths of all stripes.
Sasse is charitable in not projecting social media and other addictive harms forward to AI. He never strikes out at obvious imbalances brought on by arrogance and greed, the poster children of such are PEUs and TechGods. Sasse noted their political benefactors who favor self over service and use language to divide while scoring short term wins.
Sasse irritated me in the past as I considered his "loneliness" epidemic to be "leadership abandonment" of common folk. No more.
I am grateful to have heard his words. They are needed given the number of dark arcs rising at home and across the globe where leaders impose widespread harm on their populations for the sake of appropriation of power and resources.
To his warning I add my own. Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod/CryptoBro brethren. Increasingly more are one and for that, citizens suffer.
