On the Collapse of Instrumental Human Value
As AI challenges the instrumental justification for human worth, societies face a deeper question: if productivity is no longer the core measure, what is of value to human life?
Why Existing Fields Are Insufficient
No existing field integrates human development, institutional design, long-term coherence, and post-instrumental human value. The absence of such integration explains why responses feel fragmented.
Identity and Coherence Under Strain
Contemporary life produces rapid role switching, constant self-reinvention, and conflicting value signals. The result is not freedom, but fragmentation.
Agency Is a Structural Condition
Many people experience themselves as busy but not agentic—active without authorship. This is not a failure of motivation. It is a failure of institutional design.
Toward a Movement, Not a Product
The scale of this transition suggests that this is not a skills problem, not a leadership problem, not a wellbeing problem. It is a reorientation problem.