I've thought twice about tweeting this publically, but I wrote it while I was kind of feverish and out of it this week, and I think it's worth sharing more widely http://files.howtolivewiki.com/.meditation_2015/towards%20a%20political%20economy%20of%20enlightenment.pdf … looking at the $ costs of enlightenement practice and what might/won't work to accelerate us.
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For some...maybe? For many, it’s more like, some people decide “I’m going to be an elite athlete. I’m going to sail around the world. I’m going to run a marathon every year.” Humans have these intense drives which don’t map either onto reproduction, status-seeking, or hedonism
So my original question all the way back there is why would @leashless who is an impact kind of guy, write a long document about how expensive it is to get enlightened, when he says it’s no more or less good for a person than sailing or running marathons?
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No one really says “those poor people who wanna sail round the world, it’s so expensive these days, poor people how we gonna fix that “
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And not to quibble, but there are sites and networks that can help hook people up without much money who want to sail with people who have boats Yes, does still skew privileged/“first world”, but it is kind of analogous to Gupta’s inquiry here
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Hmm. I don’t want to speak for him. But this is a good question and maybe I’ve stacked the deck in an unhelpful way. Let me go back to my “non-zero probability” that enlightenment is •socially• beneficial. I’ll just say straight-up that it •is•
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... particularly in a time of destabilization, such as the planet is undergoing right now, and which will destabilize further
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