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BoomeritisBoomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free is a 2002 novel by the philosopher Ken Wilber. The protagonist, who is named Ken Wilber, is a brilliant MIT student studying artificial intelligence. Ken believes that the future of evolution includes the departure of human consciousness from the physical realm, or "meatspace", and the merging of human intelligence with cyberspace. Ken attends a series of lectures at an institution called the "Integral Center", which guide him towards a more expansive understanding of evolution and existence. These lectures are interposed with explicit descriptions of Ken's sexual fantasies with another character, Chloe. Wilber (the author) intended the novel to exhibit the traits of extreme post-modernism—irony, self-reference, noetic flatness—and thus act as a literary reductio ad absurdum, assisting people, especially pluralists, in overcoming the post-modern mentality. Boomeritis is also a term that Wilber uses to describe a pathological state of consciousness that particularly afflicts Baby Boomers. Boomeritis is characterized by relativism, narcissism, and an aversion to hierarchy.
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