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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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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it’s so impossibly difficult, because there are innumerable individuals whose basic self-respect is limited by environments in which there are no precedents for what that is on an inalienable level; rejecting an entire reality and taking a solitary path out is difficult and rare
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Well said. This is why compassion is more productive than hatred or blame. Everyone is born with evolutionary, cultural, and psychological conditioning. Some are born with a more dangerous set of conditioning than others. There is no "evil". Just varying degrees of dumb luck.
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