question is, how do we facilitate a drastic reversal at the micro and macro stage? It all starts with oneself, but it almost feels like an impossible fight against 7 billion other humans?
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Can a disease gain self awareness & understand that it’s tendencies are unsustainable? And if it can, does it fight itself? Does it transform itself?
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Basically what I am asking, is what is our individual calling in this matter? How can we actually be effective? I know a lot of people who try to live sustainably but inevitably still leave a negative footprint We are our own worst enemy, and we are a scary enemy to have
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individualism is definitely not the answer. great for understanding some aspects of the issue at hand and raising awareness, but essentially useless when you take impact and effectiveness into account. so, what do? well firstly i think we need to get rid of the mindset that...
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...humans are the enemies. i dont think humans are evil, i think we have a global system with misaligned and damaging metrics for success, and harmful incentives that encourage the behaviour that propels that success. the game of economics essentially breeds sociopaths, not...
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..because people are sociopaths, but because you need to be able to distance yourself from the suffering of others and be willing to take from others in order to win the rivalrous game. and ofc we want to win because we want to live in comfort and feed our families etc.
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so our enemy is a bad metric of success that is being sustained by a very efficient algorithm that optimises not for wellbeing or sustainability, but whatever results in growth, and in doing so legitimises itself in a recursive matter. cray. but to the point: as long as this...
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is how the weird global algorithm continues to work, individual action has very little impact. you need to be in a position such that you can comfortably not live by the rules - almost impossible because this would result in collapse, so theres things in place to stop this.
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i dont really know the answer, but i know incentives need to change for behaviour to change at large scale. going against the current incentives wont get you anywhere, because theres billions of others who have no choice but to live accordingly
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we can however, begin to implement changes to human-human and human-environment relations on a micro level. small scale changes are better than nothing. i think macro changes might be facilitated by risk and exponential tech, but right now we can delay collapse scenarios...
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...to give us more time to fix our shit.
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