if you want to change the world for the better you're going to have to build something, making demands won't improve anythinghttps://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/963925596127596544 …
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Replying to @plantimals
As I learn more, my distrust in governments is not getting smaller, but my distrust in revolutionaries is increasing. Most people are oblivious to the intricacy and fragility of the social structures that got us where we are, and ideology tends to project simplistic solutions.
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Replying to @Plinz
I can empathize with that. that's why I urge "build something". improve things incrementally. if it's unclear which direction leads to improvement, let's have that discussion. we may have much smaller, more local issues to address before we can fix things at the nationstate level
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Replying to @plantimals
Looking at the US, it seems that the political parties have lost it, and media are unfit to lead the public discourse. At the same time, identity politics are rapidly destroying the pluralist consensus. Before everything falls apart the military will step in but it won't be fun.
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Replying to @Plinz
what's the largest action you can take to improve things that you're confident you can succeed at? maybe it's as dire as establishing an encyclopedia foundation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Galactica …
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Building the foundations for a planetary mind that attempts to accurately model economy, ecology and politics to make the ground truth accessible.
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