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December 24, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Lie Beneath Enhancement: What Halo, AI, and Christmas Are Really Telling Us

Why becoming “more than human” may actually cost us our humanity

Long before artificial intelligence, long before machines or algorithms, there was a garden.

And in that garden was a temptation that still shapes everything we’re facing today.

It wasn’t simply disobedience. It wasn’t curiosity. It wasn’t even knowledge.

It was this promise:

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