This is good advice. It's literally coded into your DNA. twitter.com/orthonormalist
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Should also note that while we are indoctrinated to be "responsible citizens", we're also gullible morons who can't be trusted with big systems.
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A family, friend group or other micro-community, OTOH, draws on thousands and thousands of years of evolution and culture to work.
Value accordingly.
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If you had shit luck with friends or family, that sucks - but if you didn't, don't be one of these morons who spend all their thoughts on politics.
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Btw, it's possible to structure political movements in a nested fashion, so that community becomes integral at the lowest levels of organization.
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Why we so often fail to do this is a mystery to me.
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Symptoms of acute politicitis include:
- Compulsively retweeting journalists
- Long, angry political rants
- Politicizing conversations of no public interest
- Taking Bill Kristol seriously
- Taking intelligence operatives on their word
- Neoliberalism
- Ideological necromancy
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If you present with more than 3 symptoms at once, report to your nearest friend for preliminary screening.
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If you have no friends, this may also be a symptom and a sign that the condition has become chronic.
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Note that the following are not symptoms, but healthy prophylactic behaviour:
- Actually fucking doing something about it in the real world
- Working at a level where you have effective power
- Giving a shit about problems you can influence
- Not being such a wanker all the time