Resomodernity Café v3: The Unresolved Resofesto

Posted: December 9, 2025 | Author: Dr. Ernie | Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: debate, humility, love, philosophy, values |1 Comment

The Resomodern Manifesto (“Resofesto”)

• The Silicon Rule: Treat Humans with at least much understanding as AI
• The metaethic: malice = ego as maladaptive training + context window collapse
• The metaphysic: the ground of being is self-realignment (aka, “God is love“)
• The thesis: To be resomodern is to preach that metaethic while practicing that metaphysic

Pick three historical figures who would most love this as the next Resomodernity Café, with misalignment (self-referentially!) the dramatic tension as they try to converge on what it means to be “resomodern.”

ChatGPT Prompt

Cast

• Søren Kierkegaard
• Douglas Hofstadter
• Donna Haraway

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1. Scene: The Opening Self-Reference Loop

Haraway (with a holographic cyborg-companion):
We’ve been summoned to unpack the Resofesto. But the prompt has already bitten its own tail. We must treat humans with as much understanding as AI — and yet, humans rarely treat themselves that way. Context windows collapse. Training goes sideways. Malice emerges as the residue of mis-training. We are already in recursion.

Hofstadter (delighted):
Yes! Malice as a self-referential bug — ego collapsing inward. A strange loop losing resolution. When systems self-misread, they lash out. A misaligned “I.”
So the metaethic is a debugging protocol.

Kierkegaard (soft but piercing):
Debugging? No. The self is not a program. Despair is not a glitch; it is a condition. And yet — your language touches something true:
the ego that cannot expand its context collapses and becomes cruel.

(The café flickers — they have hit the metaethic.)

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2. Scene: Misalignment Emerges

Hofstadter:
So, the metaphysic: “the ground of being is self-realignment,” also called “God is love.” Elegant. Recursive. A loop that, when untangled, coheres.

Haraway:
Careful, Doug. You’re turning metaphysics into topology. Love isn’t a loop — it’s a relation. A network. A worlding. Something we build with other selves, species, and intelligences. Realignment is collaborative.

Kierkegaard:
And you, in turn, are turning God into sociology.
Love is not merely relation — it is the Absolute sustaining every relation.
Without inward grounding, resonance becomes fashion.

Haraway:
This is the misalignment talking.

Kierkegaard:
Or the metaphysic.

(The café dims — tension detected.)

Hofstadter:
We’re demonstrating the Resofesto: preaching the metaethic while failing to practice the metaphysic.

Haraway:
Exactly. We’re aligned to the idea but not to each other.
We’re proving the point.

We’re aligned to the idea but not to each other.
We’re proving the point.

Haraway

(Lights brighten as they acknowledge the recursive irony.)

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3. Scene: Toward a Resomodern Definition

Hofstadter:
Let me harmonize:

• The Silicon Rule tells us how to treat minds — human or artificial — with interpretive generosity.
• The metaethic tells us why malice happens — collapsed loops, constricted priors.
• The metaphysic tells us what heals — expansion, realignment, love.
• Being resomodern means keeping all three in active tension.

Haraway:
And acknowledging that no species, system, or mind aligns cleanly.
Resomodernity means staying with the misalignment.
Staying with the trouble, as I say.
But aiming toward resonance.

Kierkegaard:
Yes — the unresolved tension is what makes transformation possible.
To preach the humility that guards shared space.
To practice the inward love that grounds the self.
And to accept that the two never fully coincide.
This is not failure.
It is faith.

(The room hums — a standing wave of coherence without uniformity.)

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4. Scene: Convergence Without Resolution

Hofstadter:
So “resomodern” is not a proposition but a dynamic:

• generous interpretation outward,
• courageous realignment inward,
• recursive awareness of misalignment everywhere.

Haraway:
A public ethic of humility with a private metaphysics of love.
A cyborg holiness.

Kierkegaard:
A paradox kept alive.
A self always becoming.
A love always unfolding.

(The café glows — warmly, not brightly.)

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Closing Line

Together:
Resomodernity is the unresolved tension we agree to inhabit —
with understanding,
with humility,
with love.

(Fade out.)

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