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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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*eyeballs state of the evolution of the collective consciousness* Yeah, that's... also not looking great. And that's if we can make it through a century!

10:22 AM · Aug 18, 2019Twitter Web App

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Can we outline a psychological path that begins with physics & proceeds thru chemistry & biology & physiology? (I can't find the video I was looking for so the below will have to suffice for the moment)

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@mwiik

May 21, 2018

youtube.com/watch?v=0xl1Zu "Didem Rahvancı: Why life need left-handed amino acids (with simultaneous translation)"

(4m:46s)

#homochirality

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