January 26, 2026 Paid subscribers
WALL-E Spirituality
Comfort as a Substitute for Communion
There is a future we fear where technology dominates us.
But the more subtle danger is the future where nothing dominates us at all—where every hard edge is softened, every friction outsourced, every resistance quietly removed.
Not tyranny.
Sedation.
The real temptation of the age of AI is not excess pleasure, but path-of-least-resistance living. When options multiply, effort becomes optional. When effort becomes optional, agency slowly erodes—not by force, but by consent.
And the cost of that erosion is not immediately visible.
The Drift No One Chooses (But Everyone Feels)