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Human, student, non-Buddhist Buddhist, intellectual masochist. Confident only of my own ignorance. Don't believe anything I say.

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    1. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

      I once thought that fixing politics (and other basic societal dysfunctions) takes precedence over mass awakening/spiritual maturity. But it seems like the problem with politics is fundamentally rooted in our individual psychological defects, making the latter the priority. 1/

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    2. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

      Our cognitive biases and apish psychology pose hard barriers to cultural change on a global scale. We didn't evolve to deal w /issues of large-scale cooperation and shared ethical intuitions in a world where the systems that enabled those things in the past are going obsolete. 2/

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      Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

      What's more, our apish psychology prevents us from even being able to consider and grasp how this inherited cognitive structure is leading us toward self-destruction. It's a viciously cruel cycle, to the point of being almost darkly comical. 3/

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        2. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

          We don't tend to think of civilizational problems as being the result of our collective cognitive limitations, and we don't think of the solutions as requiring us to personally confront and attempt to overcome these limitations. 4/

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        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

          Instead, we blame other tribes or ideologies and believe that if we could just eradicate these imagined enemies then everything will naturally sort itself out. This view is inherently flawed. It rests on a subjective sensation of certainty in one's own worldview. 5/

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        4. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

          If the solution to all my problems is thought to be my tribe winning, my ideology coming out on top, then conflict is inevitable. But the real enemy is not the other tribe or the opposing ideology; it is the very basic psychological defects that we ALL share. 6/

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        5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

          Therefore, the only way out of this mess is for each of us, as individuals, to shift our focus from eliminating the perceived social, moral, and ideological defects of others to reprogramming our own fundamental psychological structure. 7/

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        6. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

          Unfortunately, this leads me to an unavoidable pessimism. For such a shift to be successful, individuals on a massive scale would have to acknowledge the nature of their own humanity and work to fix themselves before attempting to fix others. 8/

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        7. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

          These individuals would also need to have enough social, political, or religious influence to convince a lot of others to do the same, such that we rapidly see a huge spike in the number of awakened people across every culture, political party, and religious system. 9/

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        8. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

          I'm not at all confident that this is viable. We can't put awakening in the water supply, and people are unlikely to do spiritual work that doesn't already fit in with their existing spiritual (or anti-spiritual) paradigm. 10/

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        9. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 29

          Our rate of technological progress is also far outpacing our spiritual & ethical progress, making the prospect that we'll drive ourselves to extinction all the more likely. I'm by no means a believer of miracles, but it's gonna take something very much like one to save us. 11/11

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