[Extreme Civilization] Degenerated Humanity

Author: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU

Time: Wednesday, July 30, 2025, 4:50 PM

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[Extreme Civilization] Degenerated Humanity

We are personally abolishing our own talents!

Humans have never truly "evolved"; we have merely continued to hand over our physical and mental abilities to one tool after another, and these tools have quietly completed the process of "self-castration" for us. The stronger the tools, the weaker the person; the more convenient the technology, the more the person regresses. The most ironic thing is that we call this regression "modernization."

Modern people cannot keep warm or cook without fire; without navigation, they cannot find their way out of unfamiliar neighborhoods; without search engines, even common knowledge from five years ago is beyond retrieval; without social platforms, they feel abandoned by the entire world. If a modern person without any devices is placed in the wilderness, they wouldn't even be able to kill a mouse. We have become the most "fragile" species on this planet; once modern systems collapse, humanity immediately falls to the bottom of the food chain, having long lost even basic survival instincts. In contrast, a fawn can run just hours after birth, a wild dog can instinctively identify toxic food, and a bobcat can travel miles at night without getting lost. And what about us? It takes ten years of school and ten years of the internet to produce an adult who won't get lost.

We transfer our abilities to tools, and then lose the abilities themselves. Birds that can fly do not need a manual, but humans require training to learn how to ride a bicycle; eagles can accurately catch prey at high altitudes, while humans must rely on telephoto lenses to see details a hundred meters away; whales migrate thousands of kilometers each year, while humans struggle to move even a step without navigation. These are not signs of "backwardness," but rather things our ancestors once possessed and have lost, representing a form of systemic degeneration. And the most terrifying part is that this degeneration is no longer seen as a crisis, but is packaged as a civilizational achievement.

The significance of Tai Chi lies precisely in the challenge it presents. Many people do not understand why one should practice standing post, single-leg stances, and silk reeling movements, which seem "slow" and "useless." In fact, these movements are all about activating abilities that have long since degenerated in the body. The ability of a person to stand on one leg with their eyes closed for twenty minutes is rarer than some high-tech chips, because it requires a high level of coordination among the nervous system, balance system, muscle tension, and breathing rhythm—this cannot be downloaded, copied, or upgraded through hardware. It can only be achieved through the reconnection of consciousness and the body.

More importantly: this ability truly belongs to humans—independent of devices, independent of drugs, independent of external assistance. The real progress of humanity is not to hand everything over to machines, but to return to that existence capable of standing, breathing, judging, and acting independently.

You can look at today's children, who are immersed in electronic devices from a young age. They can swipe on a phone at three years old, but at ten, they cannot squat, cannot walk for an hour carrying five kilograms, and do not understand any herbs, terrain, wind direction, sunlight, or sense of direction. If they were placed in a wilderness without internet, they might start crying within an hour and begin to dehydrate after half a day. Humanity has long lost the instinct for survival.

Is this what we call "evolution"? No, we are actively sending ourselves into the trap of degeneration. Practicing Tai Chi, standing in postures, regulating breath, and focusing consciousness is meant to slowly restore the talents we have discarded. It is not superficial work aimed at "strengthening the body," but a profound resistance against the enslavement of tools.

Today, humanity has become accustomed to high efficiency, instant gratification, and zero delay, losing the ability to wait, endure, and accumulate. However, standing meditation training precisely requires "non-action without inaction," to withstand loneliness, endure monotony, bear tremors, and maintain balance. After ten minutes, the ground trembles slightly, and the legs subtly shake; after twenty minutes, the body sways like a willow in the wind, yet remains upright; after thirty minutes, the whole body experiences smooth circulation of energy and blood, with a light sweat like rain. This is a bridge rebuilt between the brain and the body. It is not achieved through input, but through a return to oneself.

Many people say, "Humanity has entered the AI era," as if everything can be handled by algorithms. However, as I have repeatedly emphasized: without modern equipment, humans no longer hold even the most basic position in the food chain in the wilderness. Can you stand on one foot with your eyes closed for twenty minutes? Can you navigate out of the mountains without GPS? Can you perceive subtle changes in temperature and adjust your clothing, diet, and breathing rate accordingly? If the answer to all these questions is no, then no matter how many degrees you have, how much knowledge you possess, or how strong your programming skills are, you are merely a digital plastic person, ready to collapse the moment you are disconnected from the system of devices.

Some people mock Tai Chi as "slow," "empty," and "outdated," but those who truly engage with the Tai Chi system know that it is not a surrender to tradition, but rather a proactive remedy for future crises. What it awakens is not technique, nor external performance, but a complete sensory system that we once had but lost without knowing when. It offers a possibility of allowing one to "become a species again."

So, when you stand on the grass, your feet gripping the ground like claws, your spine connecting like a dragon, and your breath flowing like the tides, you are not actually exercising your body, but rather calling back the "real you" that has been forgotten by human civilization. You are no longer an appendage to the keyboard and screen, no longer a download terminal for external information, but a complete human being with a sense of direction, a center of gravity, balance, and decisiveness.

Degeneration is not shameful; what is shameful is not knowing that one is degenerating. Even more frightening is thinking that it is called "progress." In today's world, where tools have become powerful enough to write poetry, cook, navigate, make friends, and predict preferences for us, perhaps the only way to resist systemic degeneration is the simplest action of all: to stand still—return to oneself.

Humanity is in an illusion of civilization, believing it is progressing, while in fact it is undergoing a comprehensive regression. The leap in technology has led people to become accustomed to relying on external devices, yet they overlook that their own rate of degeneration far exceeds the pace of technological advancement. As humans become increasingly incapable of manual labor, no longer rely on memory to store knowledge, and even lose the ability to discern true from false information, this so-called "progress" has quietly transformed into profound regression.

Imagine a modern person suddenly losing their mobile phone, computer, navigation, electricity, internet, and other modern tools. Could they still live independently? If they were to lose the food supply chain and the support of logistics systems, would they still have the ability to grow food, store water, maintain temperature, identify directions, and collaborate with others? Once the global system crashes, humanity will fall to the very bottom of the Earth's food chain.

From the perspective of civilization history, many fundamental abilities of humans—resilience to cold and heat, sharp auditory and visual perception, coordination of physical structure, and depth of cognition and logical judgment—are rapidly diminishing. Modern people need air conditioning to regulate temperature, rely on search engines for answers, and depend on cameras to observe the world, while people in the past could discern directions in the wilderness, identify medicinal herbs, navigate by the stars, and even detect danger at a glance. Today, these abilities are nearly extinct.

The rise of AI and smart devices has led humans to further abandon the habit of thinking. Faced with a group that does not think independently, no longer questions, and only knows how to "like" and "share," any technology has become an accomplice to human regression.

This trend has been repeatedly warned in several of my articles, such as "The Miracle of AI Misjudging 20 Years Younger," "Training Cold Resistance from Extreme Cold Sensitivity," "I Used a Logistics System to Defeat the Dark Workplace," "A Logistics System Without Typists," "Structural Errors in EXCEL," "Artificial Intelligence is False Intelligence," "AI Structural Destroyers," and "Artificial Intelligence is a Case of Whistling in the Dark." These articles not only document empirical experiences but also reveal a harsh reality: once humans lose their connection with the body, cognition, and self-system, they are no longer "intelligent life forms," but merely users of advanced systems, or even tools enslaved by the systems.

We are witnessing an extreme phenomenon of civilization: human "intelligence" is supplied by devices, and once the devices lose power, human wisdom instantly drops to zero.

This is not alarmism, but a reality that is happening. And in this reality, the vast majority of people are still intoxicated by likes.

As humanity indulges in the convenience brought by "tool replacement," Tai Chi offers a reverse repair path. Starting from bodily awareness, it gradually reverses the abilities stripped away by technology. The control between standing postures, breathing, and movement is, in fact, a comprehensive reconstruction of the coordination abilities of the hippocampus, vestibular system, and cerebellum. In today's society, an increasing number of neuroscience studies also confirm that the atrophy caused by modern tools on the human brain structure has become a global trend.

Why not give it a try? Tai Chi is not just a static experience of traditional culture, but a real and verifiable training of the body's nervous system. For example, "Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg"—it seems simple, standing on one leg with your eyes closed, but once you try it, you'll realize that your whole body is not just standing, but also reconstructing levels of your body that you have never used before.

Only those who have trained for many years can maintain lower limb stability in a standing position for more than ten minutes. This action activates a bodily system that has been long neglected in human evolution.

Scientific research has confirmed that standing on one leg with eyes closed for 10 minutes activates the cerebellum and proprioceptive networks more than three times compared to normal walking (Journal of Neurophysiology, 2021).

Tai Chi is not slow; it is reconstruction; it is not merely health preservation, but a rebuilding project of the coordination between nerves and muscles. The transition between stillness and movement awakens not the strength itself, but the sense of coordination, bodily integration, rhythm, and sense of time that you have lost.

For example, in "breath control training," many people can't even sit still with their eyes closed for three minutes in a quiet place. Try to keep your body from relying on electronic devices for thirty minutes without moving, and you'll find that modern people have lost even the most basic "internal scheduling mechanism." Tai Chi, on the other hand, uses a series of natural movements and rhythms to help you re-establish a connection with your "body's origin."

Some people may question why we should talk about degeneration when modern medicine and technological advancements have brought more life and convenience to humanity.

But it is precisely this illusion of "longer lifespan" that conceals the reality of "lower quality of life." We abandon judgment, we embrace laziness, yet we no longer judge; we adeptly use high technology, yet we cannot control the system; we are good at correcting others, yet we cannot prove ourselves. We train the next generation to replace walking with eyes, to substitute fingers for the brain, to use navigation instead of direction, and to use drugs in place of perception.

Thus, when an urban human who has lost their navigation system falls into the wilderness, they find themselves unable to locate their position, avoid danger, or discern direction, and therefore cannot escape the "natural punishment" that follows the failure of technology.

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