Role as a Central Concept of Human Existence

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Role is a central concept in human existence as a whole.
I genuinely do not understand why it was never treated as such by Renaissance philosophers, whose writings—despite their intellectual weight—were burdened with flawed emotional charges that have since revealed their fragility in our present age.

Role is not a rigid or extremist notion, as some may describe it. It is reality itself.
It is neither the exclusion of some nor the glorification of others; rather, it is a rupture with a long-dominant pattern—one that encouraged triviality and the infantilization of human beings.
Rights, human dignity, and success narratives have not produced real incentives for societal elevation; on the contrary, they have constrained the collective interest of humanity in favor of satisfying individual ego.

In our time, information is not scarce. We are not in need of more knowledge than we already possess.
What we lack is meaning—and meaning alone leads to role.

Yet even the concept of meaning has been deeply misunderstood. Many believe they will find the meaning of their lives by discovering what they love. I consider this view naïve, and I do not conceal my contempt for it.
Meaning is not extracted from desire or passion.
It emerges when you strip yourself of everything you have seen and read, and stand alone before your immediate, present reality—
without past, without future, without philosophy, without claims of brilliance.

When meaning reveals itself, you do not search for your role—you recognize it.

I do not recognize superior and inferior human beings.
Nor do I promote Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch.
What I propose is neither a higher human nor an elevated ideal, but something harsher and more powerful: the human defined by role.

We do not need wonder.
Wonder belonged to eras that did not experience the technological saturation and structural exposure of our time.
By abolishing wonder, we abolish curiosity, questioning, trial, and error—because everything operates according to the same underlying structure, and repeating it yields nothing but the same outcomes across all human beings.
Immersion in one’s role without wonder or questioning, however, produces an automatic individual and collective evolution.

We do not need metaphysical philosophy.
We do not need to understand the universe.
We do not need to approach societal problems in the ways inherited from our ancestors.
Our era is not an era of thinking, nor an era of absolute belief as in the Middle Ages—
yet someone had to think in order to state this reality.

The twenty-first century, and the few centuries that will follow, are not an extension of the Renaissance.
They are a rupture from it.
They are the age of meaning, role formation, and disciplined specialization.

If you know, everyone knows.
If you reject, everyone rejects.
If you doubt, everyone doubts.

The drift toward generalized thinking or non-specialized “universal knowledge” does not produce slaves, nor revolutionaries—it produces fools.
A snowball of confusion accumulating generation after generation, beginning with Generation Z.
A generation in which I see neither revolution nor strength, but weakness and fragility—no different in essence from those before it.
The difference is that previous generations abandoned such thinking quickly and submitted to reality,
whereas this generation has been frozen in time before a screen.
They will collide with an unforgiving reality one by one, yet screen-induced hallucinations will convince them that they are part of suffering itself, prolonging adolescence and childhood into old age.

We do not need people who “understand everything.”
We do not need general philosophy.
We do not need accumulated knowledge.
We need individuals who discipline their specializations, criticize within their own frameworks, and understand that our era is neither the Renaissance nor its continuation, but a break from ideas that have become naïve—just as the Dark Ages once appeared naïve to Renaissance thinkers.

Every individual must know their role.
There is no degradation in that.
Even if your role is that of a servant, perform it with absolute mastery.
There is no question of whether your role is imposed or chosen.
Either it is your eternal role, or a necessary phase toward your true one.
In both cases, questioning is unnecessary—only mastery matters.

I see no complexity in the world.
No truths or falsehoods.
Nothing deserving philosophical wonder or pity.
The law is singular:
respect roles, define specializations, and operate by the logic of power, not equality.

Exploitation governed openly by power is more honest than exploitation disguised by narratives of equality.
There are no higher ideals, and no true equality in the human world.

In the age of artificial intelligence, what matters more than the survival of humanity?
Is it not our greatest creation?
Perhaps greater creations will follow—but only if we step back and critically reassess the foundations of modernity and the Renaissance, and alter them.
Continuing along the current path leads only to collapse, or to becoming objects of ridicule for future generations.

Just as Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche created new philosophies,
we no longer need philosophies—we need new modes of living.
Not the lifestyles displayed on Instagram,
but ways of life adapted to the concrete reality of each individual.

This cannot be achieved by leaping between roles,
but by living exactly as you are, without addition,
and mastering the role nature has assigned you in the human world—
without illusory attempts to change it, unless a genuine path is granted to you.

Abolish rights.
Abolish the excess of organizations.
Abolish the narrative of “you are human and therefore deserve life.”

We are merely a small phase within a much greater cosmic process.
There is no need for this absurd noise and exaggerated spectacle surrounding the human being.