I agree with everything you say, save one. You blame the system, but humans keep recreating the systems. They seem to arise from something in ... I won’t say human nature, but something very deep in human habit, in the “collective unconscious,” maybe ever since agriculture, when people negan to be able to accumulate food and other goods and steal them from each other. The Euroid empires had the technology and the arrogance to ramp this way up.
There’s a book called Thr Parable of the Tribes that states that if one tribe becomes aggressive toward its neighbors, they have to remake themselves in its image or be taken over, expropriated and enslaved. This is the vicious cycle: self;-defense, but also envy and emulation. One successful greedhead gives others ideas.
Revolution: you empower a cadre to expropriate the billionaire oppressors. Then they keep it and become the new billionaire oppressors.
Habits, conditioning, self-harm, dehumanizin/objectivizing of others, dogma can all be unlearned. Most have this potential. They need opportunity and encouragement.
I agree with everything you say, save one. You blame the system, but humans keep recreating the systems. They seem to arise from something in ... I won’t say human nature, but something very deep in human habit, in the “collective unconscious,” maybe ever since agriculture, when people negan to be able to accumulate food and other goods and steal them from each other. The Euroid empires had the technology and the arrogance to ramp this way up.
There’s a book called Thr Parable of the Tribes that states that if one tribe becomes aggressive toward its neighbors, they have to remake themselves in its image or be taken over, expropriated and enslaved. This is the vicious cycle: self;-defense, but also envy and emulation. One successful greedhead gives others ideas.
Revolution: you empower a cadre to expropriate the billionaire oppressors. Then they keep it and become the new billionaire oppressors.
How do you fight THAT? Extinction?
Habits, conditioning, self-harm, dehumanizin/objectivizing of others, dogma can all be unlearned. Most have this potential. They need opportunity and encouragement.