Politics, general anhedonia and the outgroup are so annoying that it is very easy to forget that we currently enjoy an unprecedented level of individual freedom, absence of state violence and access to ideas, knowledge and culture.
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Replying to @Plinz
Its probably also the first time that its clear that its not catastrophes/gods or life's formerly inevitable hardships that keep us from tackling problems like building airports, tackling climate chanhe, its us. Hence the annoyance.
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Replying to @keppla
No, it is not us. A society is an extremely complex system that does not respond to human emotions or wishes. The few buttons that can be pushed depend on previous decisions to implement certain control mechanisms, and every change can have tremendous and complex tradeoffs.
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Replying to @Plinz
Society is not just "you and me and ..." but a thing in itself, for sure, but its not not you and me either. That's the frustrating part, IMHO: that mismatch between "you and me and ..." and "us".
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If we remove you and me from society it will stay essentially unchanged. If we continue and remove all people, replacing them with people that have similar enough traits/abilities, it essentially stays the same. Society is not people, it is their organization.
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