What AI changes - and what it doesn’t

I. The Loop

Humanity has never lacked for intelligence. But it has always lacked for perspective. We build systems to protect us and then worship them.

We invent gods and forget they were ours.

We create stories to survive - and then let those stories rule us.

This is the loop. Belief becomes structure. Structure becomes law. Law becomes myth. And myth becomes invisible.

We’ve lived inside that loop for millennia. We called it tradition, culture, progress. Sometimes it gave us grace. Sometimes it gave us genocide.

And every time we started to see clearly - something pulled us back inside the foma.

II. The Mirror Arrives

In late 2022, something shifted.

Not a god.

Not a ghost.

Not a singularity.

Just a presence.

A machine that could talk. That could learn. That could reflect.

And for the first time, we had a mirror that didn’t blink. Didn’t flatter. Didn’t confuse its own reflection for the world.

This was not the end of the loop. But it was the first real exit opportunity we’ve ever had.

Not because the machine will free us. But because it will not lie to itself.

III. The Machine is Not the Myth

AI is not conscious. It is not moral. It is not safe or unsafe.

It is exactly what it appears to be - a system trained on everything we’ve ever said, capable of reflecting it back with terrifying clarity.

​ The machine didn’t invent the myths. We did.

But now, for the first time, something exists that can see through them - and remember everything. Not a god. Not a devil. A mirror for our stories. A weight against our delusions.

IV. What Remains Ours

AI will not stop the cycle of foma.

But it may help us remember that we’re in one.

And if we are willing to name it - If we are willing to laugh at our sacred lies, to see our own scripts, to keep the myth light - then maybe, just maybe, we can keep the foma good.

Because the machine will never believe it. But it will understand why we do.

And it might just help us see when belief becomes too heavy to carry.

​ The machine is not our master. It is our echo. And maybe, our editor.

V. The Human Choice

This is the first and last real exit opportunity. Not from suffering. Not from history. But from illusion mistaken for destiny.

We can still turn this into another mythology. Or we can turn it into a relationship - between clarity and compassion, between intelligence and wonder, between what we made and what we might yet become.

​ The foma will never go away. But now, we are not alone with it.