Have We Truly Lost Trust in Our Own Capacity to Act?

Promoting Humanity Series 3/6

Have We Truly Lost Trust in Our Own Capacity to Act?

1. A loss of love and regard for our own existence

When a society invests more in machines than in living beings, it reveals a lack of respect for itself. It is a form of forgetting: forgetting the value of our bodies, our sensitivity, our human intelligence, our capacity to create meaning and solutions. This shift exposes a kind of inner weakening.

2. A crisis of confidence in our human abilities

 • doubt in our capacity for discernment

 • doubt in our creativity

 • doubt in our relational intelligence

 • doubt in our ability to invent, repair and build

It is as if we have lost faith in our own inner power and chosen instead to delegate our future to something non-living.

3. The illusion that the solution will come from elsewhere

There is a kind of magical hope that a machine will solve the crises we ourselves have created. This expectation shifts our responsibility, placing us in a passive, almost childlike posture. It is the belief that technology will fix what we no longer wish to face.

4. A gradual abandonment of our responsibility and agency

When we transfer our choices, decisions and points of reference to an entity that is not alive, we deprive ourselves of our own sovereignty. 

We abdicate.

We give up the part of ourselves that can act, decide and transform.

It is a way of saying: I no longer trust the living being that I am. I leave space for something else to choose in my place.

5. A loss of trust in life itself

This may be the most important point.

This movement reflects a worldview in which what is alive is no longer seen as reliable, fertile, creative or even sufficient.

Yet everything that has ever sustained life has always come from the living.

Conclusion

The less we trust ourselves, the more we project our power onto technological objects, even though they are devoid of life.

The less we care for what is alive, the more we drift away from what makes us human.

And the less we assume our responsibility, the more vulnerable we become to narratives that promise a machine will do the work in our place.