I agree that Europeans would have done a lot better and our world would be in better shape if we had listened to indigenous ideas about nature and how it should be treated. I would think through the idea that Amish or Mennonites are more humane on all levels. I do like their idea of non consumption and avoiding modernization. But I have lived in a Mennonite community and in that community was a very high rate of sexual abuse of children. I am also not impressed with how women are treated in those societies. People are people. We are all fallible. We are all stuck in this world, paying exorbitant prices for everything, watching our health care system collapse, watching immigrants being mistreated and we can only write letters, go to protests, talk to other people about how we see the situation. The misery is caused by the pursuit of money and the false idea that money will bring happiness. Corporations would not even exist, if I were making the rules. There would be a limit to the amount of money any one person was allowed to have if I could control things. Any extra money would go to supporting people less able to look after themselves. I think that capitalism is THE problem. Without it, there would not be the push for fossil fuels that are destroying our planet. Or the push for minerals such as cobalt and lithium for batteries, etc., where people mining those things die. Sometimes children. Still, I maintain that hating each other will only make things worse. Hating ideologies such as Zionism, Capitalism, probably religions etc is one thing. But hating people just makes our world an even worse place. I admit that I have a lot of difficulty not feeling hatred toward people like Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates or Elon Musk or any other multi billionaire trying to take control. If I met them in person I hope I could find something to like about them. But it would not be their insatiable need for money.
Don't disagree with anything you say about Capitalism and the frantic pursuit of $$ as essentially overshadowing all other considerations. Re: the strength and intensity of emotions toward the Big Capitalist destroyers, that's a personal matter. I believe I've already expressed that my Deity, the Biosphere, is being attacked, with murderous intent by these monsters (they're aware of their impact). I feel the emotional intensity of my reactions to be appropriate, as compared, let's say, to some jerk at my insurance company who's charging me a higher copay for service, a person whom I dislike intensely as a drone of the system, but for whom that malaise is on a completely different level than the big corporate Capitalist Billionaire destroyers like Bezos, Musk, Gates, Karp, et al. Again, this is a very personal matter; let's not try to globalize anything: it'd never work.
I agree that Europeans would have done a lot better and our world would be in better shape if we had listened to indigenous ideas about nature and how it should be treated. I would think through the idea that Amish or Mennonites are more humane on all levels. I do like their idea of non consumption and avoiding modernization. But I have lived in a Mennonite community and in that community was a very high rate of sexual abuse of children. I am also not impressed with how women are treated in those societies. People are people. We are all fallible. We are all stuck in this world, paying exorbitant prices for everything, watching our health care system collapse, watching immigrants being mistreated and we can only write letters, go to protests, talk to other people about how we see the situation. The misery is caused by the pursuit of money and the false idea that money will bring happiness. Corporations would not even exist, if I were making the rules. There would be a limit to the amount of money any one person was allowed to have if I could control things. Any extra money would go to supporting people less able to look after themselves. I think that capitalism is THE problem. Without it, there would not be the push for fossil fuels that are destroying our planet. Or the push for minerals such as cobalt and lithium for batteries, etc., where people mining those things die. Sometimes children. Still, I maintain that hating each other will only make things worse. Hating ideologies such as Zionism, Capitalism, probably religions etc is one thing. But hating people just makes our world an even worse place. I admit that I have a lot of difficulty not feeling hatred toward people like Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates or Elon Musk or any other multi billionaire trying to take control. If I met them in person I hope I could find something to like about them. But it would not be their insatiable need for money.
Don't disagree with anything you say about Capitalism and the frantic pursuit of $$ as essentially overshadowing all other considerations. Re: the strength and intensity of emotions toward the Big Capitalist destroyers, that's a personal matter. I believe I've already expressed that my Deity, the Biosphere, is being attacked, with murderous intent by these monsters (they're aware of their impact). I feel the emotional intensity of my reactions to be appropriate, as compared, let's say, to some jerk at my insurance company who's charging me a higher copay for service, a person whom I dislike intensely as a drone of the system, but for whom that malaise is on a completely different level than the big corporate Capitalist Billionaire destroyers like Bezos, Musk, Gates, Karp, et al. Again, this is a very personal matter; let's not try to globalize anything: it'd never work.