This is a follow-up to the article I posted on Substack a few days ago about what I believe is a 35% chance that humanity will be destroyed sometime in the next 20 years or so.
Long story short, there is a there is a 35% chance humanity will be wiped out by AI or human assholes using AI, and there is a 65% chance, if humanity doesn’t get wiped out, that humanity will experience the Ten Years of Brutality I described in my book Freedom Fortress.
Go read that article if you have no idea what I’m talking about. Better yet, read Freedom Fortress.
Now I’m going to make some statements that are the 100% truth, as crazy as they may sound.
I am 100% okay, spiritually and emotionally, with the 35% possibility of myself, everyone I know and love, and humanity being completely destroyed in the next few decades. I don’t want it to happen and I really hope it doesn’t. But if it does, I’m 100% okay with it.
I am 100% okay, spiritually and emotionally, if humanity doesn’t get destroyed but if most or all of the entire planet Earth falls into deep chaos (caused by AI and/or other factors) lasting a decade or more, even if I am personally, negatively affected by this in a very serious way. (To be fair, this is unlikely to affect me in this way because of my five flags, location-independent businesses, nonmonogamy, online brand, and finances, but I’m saying if it really fucks me up, I’m 100% okay with it, even though, again, I don’t want it to happen.)
To be clear, these two views apply to only me. They most definitely do not apply to most of my friends, close co-workers, family, and women in my life. Many of these people are quite terrified about these things and I know most people reading these words probably are also.
I will also state for the record that I absolutely did not feel this way as short as five years ago, and that for most of my life, I have indeed been concerned/worried/stressed about these things just like everyone else.
These views are something new in my life as part of my spiritual awakening and transition to a more self-actualized life over the past year and a half.
I will also be very clear in that I do not want to die through any causes I have control over. It would make me extremely upset if I died because I didn’t manage my health correctly, or because I violated the 2% rule, or because I did something stupid.
I’m just saying here that if I died only because all humanity died with me at the same time due to circumstances completely beyond my control, I’m 100% okay with that particular scenario.
To summarize and dramatically oversimplify why I feel this way, here are the reasons:
I know WHO I am. I am Caleb Jones, someone who has been placed on this Earth to teach others, especially men, how to live a freer, more protected, and happier long-term life within an insane, mostly left-wing (that includes Trump supporters!) collapsing civilization during late-stage capitalism, early-stage cyberpunk, and early-stage idocracy.
More importantly, I know WHAT I am. I am actually not Caleb Jones. I’m not even human. That’s just a temporary construct I happen to be riding at the moment. Instead, I am an immortal, indestructible, immensely powerful, god-like part of the universe, a wave in the ocean, a sunbeam part of the sun, a whirlpool in the river, who is part of a vast and powerful universe temporarily experiencing that universe as this construct called a “human” for a hundred or so years before I go back to the core what what I truly am.
I know what my PURPOSE is. My purpose is to experience the most amount of freedom a human can experience in this world, internationally, logistically, financially, sexually, romantically, physically, and in my day-to-day life. I am supposed to absorb all of these experiences and then pass them to a small, select group of others so that they can replicate them for themselves. This is literally why I was grown by the universe within the temporary construct of this human body and mind.
I know what my MISSION is. I’ve talked about this a hell of a lot in my books, videos, and blogs. My personal Mission is (and don’t copy this please, because it won’t make you happy; Missions are unique to the individual): As a man who is the ideal example of long-term masculine happiness, financially, in business, with physical health, and with relationships, I will continue to help one million men achieve and maintain a life of long-term consistent happiness. From this, and from businesses that help both men and companies, I have functionally unlimited wealth to do whatever I want and explore the entire world.
So if you determine that there’s decent odds you and everyone else might get killed in the next few years, or something similarly bad, and that freaks you out, this means you haven’t yet figured out who you are, what you are, what your purpose is, and what your Mission is.
When/if you get those four things 100% formulated and dialed, you really won’t give a shit.
It’s outcome independence on steroids. And it’s a pretty nice place to be.
The problem is figuring out these four things is hard. It takes time. You've got to put your fucking phone down, sit down quietly, stare out a window, and THINK.
You need to write on a notepad. You need to process. You need to reflect.
And it’s possible you need to do these things for a long time, perhaps months, before you really get somewhere.
The challenge is that few people today have the patience, intelligence, or attention span to do those simple things.
Back in the 1980s, people could do things like that, and did. But today, if you tell someone to put their phone in another room, go sit in a comfortable chair, look out a window, and think about their life for 45 minutes, they’ll have a god damn panic attack just thinking about it. “I CAN’T DO THAT! BECAUSE… !”
This is why most of the world, as I’ve been saying for about seven years now, is going to have a very rough time over the next 20-30 years as this new dark age continues.
It’s not just that they’ll suffer, which they will, but it’s also that they are not emotionally prepared for what’s coming… and indeed what is already happening.
Honestly, the biggest thing I won’t like about this going forward is not how I’ll handle it (because I’m okay) but how some of my loved ones will handle it. They’re not as self-aware or as spiritually enlightened as I am (and I’m not saying I’m perfect because I’m not), and they’re going to suffer similarly to most normal people.
I have a lot more content coming this year on how to determine those four things for yourself (who you are, what you are, purpose, and Mission). I hope they will be useful to you.
But I’m warning you, they’re not going to be easy.
But hey, what’s the alternative?
Been doing a lot of work on those four questions you mentioned in my own life, look forward to the upcoming articles about them.