Conversation

I realized today in a new way that most of the shrieking in civilization is done to prevent people following thoughts to their conclusion. i.e. left or right, rich or poor, your lifestyle still depends on the exploitation of Chinese factory workers. We are all complicit in this.

@mwiik

Aug 18, 2019

Replying to

@leashless

I am not so sure that following thoughts to their conclusion is necessarily good I think one could stare at the below graphic until one leans back and the hands come together and the fingertips touch & a thought of 'hmm, this could actually work...' comes along

Replying to

and

Thoughts have more than one set of logical conclusions depending on the perspective that animates them, yes. The problem is that rich people & comfy servants' perspectives are behind most of the thinking that informs power. And the majority of that thinking is pitifully myopic.

Replying to

and

For the rest of us the problem seems to be that while we are far enough down the rungs to feel the water rising, our understanding of & access to power is weak. We need a path to cut through elite BS without just handing everything over to an equally myopic elite a la Communism.

8:02 AM · Aug 18, 2019Twitter Web App

Replying to

and

But even when somebody like

@iwelsh

does shows in detail how people ought to do systems thinking and social organisation, people just smile and nod. Not sure what can fill this near-total void of cultural, political AND individual responsibly.

Replying to

If the billionaires and G20 countries aren't stopped in their extractivist tracks, no amount of minor restructuring will do. We'll still be fucked. So short of a total social collapse (in a world with active nuclear reactors!), there needs to be some reckoning with power here.