The twilight of the Enlightenment and the Rise of Archeofuturism

A Return to ancestral value to elevate the human condition without rejecting technological innovation.

Does the state of the world seem normal to you?

For many, "normal" might mean waking up in the morning without feeling that everything around them is unraveling. Yet, the prevailing sentiment, it sesms to me, is quite the opposite—there’s a widespread sense that something is profoundly off. This feeling transcends personal bubbles and political divides, so it isn’t merely a matter of perspective — but perhaps it comes from a shift in the fabric of our reality.

My grandparents lived through bombings in their courtyards alongside German soldiers, yet they likely didn’t experience this constant sense of perpetual unraveling.

Ted Kaczynski articulated this widespread unease in Western societies, blaming technology as an oppressive tool of mass manipulation, stripping life of meaning. To him, modern technological advancements had “destabilized society and made our lives empty, unsatisfactory, and undignified.”

Those who have followed me for a long time know that while I respect Kaczynski’s insights, I see the problem as broader than just technology itself. The uneasiness we feel today stems not only from technological oppression but from the collision of human consciousness within a vast, planetary-scale Generative Adversarial Network—a system where individuals, algorithms, and entire information ecosystems are locked in an accelerating process of ideological, cultural, and spiritual contestation.

Humanity has been thrust into this new reality without fully understanding it.

Ideas, values, and worldviews no longer evolve slowly over generations but clash and mutate in real time, subjected to continuous stress-testing in the digital sphere.

This is a painful but inevitable transition—one that is breaking apart outdated paradigms while forcing the emergence of new cultural, philosophical, and even religious structures.

A Cosmological Transition

The transition can also be understood as a cosmological shift. According to Jung (Aion, 1951), Western civilization moves through the great cycle of Platonic months, each marking a kind of precession of cultural and religious archetypes.

We are now approaching the end of the current Platonic month — a 2150-year period related to the phenomenon of the precession of the Earth’s equinoxes —shifting from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius.

As Jung notes, water symbolizes the collective unconscious, dreams, and metaphysical realms—yet Pisces, in contrast, represents dualism, division, and inner conflict.