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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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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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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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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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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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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