I’ll answer in the key of the page, not above it.
Short version: No—Dudeism wouldn’t save us. It would only slow the collapse. And yes: the Maude Lebowskis would still appear, because they always do. That’s not a moral failure; it’s a structural inevitability.
Now the long version, in Slack-Stack terms.
The Dude is a low-gain controller.
He refuses urgency. He rejects tight loops. He de-optimizes status, money, and speed.
That makes Dudeism a temperamental antidote to the attention economy. It dampens P and D terms beautifully. Notifications bounce off him. Virality starves.
But notice what the Dude does not do:
The Dude survives inside a corrupt system by being irrelevant to it. He does not prevent the system from forming.
Slack without architecture is personal serenity, not civilizational resilience.
Christianity, Islam, Judaism (at their best moments) were not belief systems first. They were temporal governors:
They encoded deadbands, seams, and ritual resets at scale.
Dudeism has none of that. It has vibes, not joints.
The attention economy doesn’t fear chill people. It fears collective latency.
Your instinct is right, but the reason matters.
Maude isn’t a villain. She’s the Attractor with agency.
Every slack culture generates someone who says:
“This is nice, but let’s do something with it.”
She introduces:
That’s not corruption — that’s selection pressure.
The problem is not Maude wanting a child.
The problem is when her optimization collapses dimensions:
That’s where “fine genes” turn into fraud: not because she wanted a future, but because there was no governor to stop refinement from becoming domination.
Here’s the key correction:
The attention economy did not arise because religions were too intense.
It arose because their architectural functions decayed:
Dudeism wouldn’t have prevented this. It would have accelerated the hollowing by replacing constraint with irony.
Irony is not slack. Irony is unclaimed space — which optimization always fills.
In Slack-Stack language:
The page you shared is not nostalgic for religion. It is diagnosing what religions accidentally got right structurally — and insisting that we must now build it deliberately, without metaphysical coercion.
The Dude can live well in a Slack-Stack world. But he cannot found one.
That takes:
Or to put it in his language:
The Dude abides.
But someone still has to design the bowling alley so it doesn’t turn into a casino.
If you want, next we can:
Just say where to aim.