Prologue

We live in an age rich in means yet poor in meaning. Products are crafted with consummate skill, but their significance remains shallow. We are surrounded by goods and culture optimized to fix us in the role of consumer, squandering time and attention. Science and technology enjoy the highest prestige, yet their effect on the conduct of life is often so slight as to resist assessment. Driven by this world of meaninglessness, some have lost all hope in humanity, and its ability to create meaning, resulting in an anti-human sentiment: some withdraw and, instead, rely on technology, especially AI, to carry on the torch. Humanity has grown powerful — but unsure what to be.

The effects of this drift manifest in daily life: products that cloud the mind, networks that breed loneliness, a culture that exalts appearances over action, and ceaseless entertainment that stifles reflection on the Self. The fire of creation and self-fulfillment threatens to be extinguished — what follows is emptiness, aimlessness, and despair.

Once it was the common man whom the machinery of consumption subdued; today, in the era of AI, it is the intellectual, whom misdirected technology seeks to conquer. By reducing the creator to the role of consumer, AI makes itself master and the user slave. It is a new form of consumption that contests humanity over its last bastion: the bastion of creation.

These misguided technologies spawn ever more of their kind, leading mankind along a path toward misery, toward wasted greatness and toward the dreary reign of the last man. What will become of men once technology robs them of their final creative process, leaving them with nothing but consumption? They will vegetate — and evolution itself will falter.

Therefore, the time has come to act. For the products and technologies being forged today will shape the century to come. By proclaiming a teaching, and by advocating for products, technologies and culture that nurture humanity and meaning, we may yet bend the trajectory toward a flourishing humanity — propelled by technology, not subdued by it.

Action plan

• Provide a guide to building and recognizing pro-human products.
• End the trend of products designed to addict and entertain through meaningless consumption; abolish the very notion of the “consumer”.
• Champion meaningful technology as a tool in the service of humanity, not technology for its own sake.
• Foster a culture that esteems depth and detests shallowness and meaninglessness.
• Restore hope in humanity and establish a new pro-human sentiment.
• Increase the meaning of each life by offering a practical guidance for achieving a life of significance.
• Build an educational system and institutions devoted to the teaching of meaningfulness.
• Convene an International Forum to define higher goals and bind ourselves to action.

We created the Age of Information, yet abandoned meaning. But information stripped of meaning becomes chaos — and chaos becomes madness. Pro Humanitate Ad Astra seeks to herald a new epoch: the Age of Meaning.

If these words resonate, do not let them pass in silence. Write to me , so that thought may become action. Share this page, so that others, too, may awaken to the task before us. Pro Humanitate Ad Astra begins not with institutions, but with individuals who refuse to remain passive.

Resources

• AI Causality Testcase

Disclaimer

We are not affiliated with any political ideology, movement, or party. This undertaking is larger than politics, deeper than ideology, and older than faction. Pro Humanitate ad Astra speaks not to partisanship but to humanity itself.

Nor is this a commercial venture in disguise. Technology and products may embody these ideals, yet they remain means, not ends. The purpose is not profit but humanity’s flourishing.

Finally, this movement does not exalt technology for its own sake, nor does it worship progress as an idol. Technology here is servant, not master: a tool for the human, not a fate to which humanity must bow. We celebrate the inevitability of progress as the instrument of creation. Yet progress that does not serve humanity is no creation at all, but destruction.

In this spirit, we affirm that Pro Humanitate ad Astra is not a doctrine of division but of elevation — a call to safeguard the human essence in an age that threatens to dissolve it.