Your friend is an excellent writer (but why should that come as a surprise?:) ). It is, indeed, very much a birth lottery, and it seems petty to hold it against someone that either they didn't have access to the same tech/opportunity, or they lack the understanding to use it to their advantage. Yet a lot of that's already present. I've talked to many smart, well-educated people who are somewhat disinterested, since the development of tech is only threatening other social classes/job sectors. Somehow, it's easier not to care, though that doesn't sound like right.
Maybe people felt that way with the introduction of the steam engine or mechanized farming, but when it comes to intelligence, that impacts everything
Completely. I suppose every invention can be used toward progress or evil. Maybe fewer people thought along these depressing lines back then because they weren't as aware as we are now of the possibility of evil?
And yet, “trying stuff” to create a world we all want to live in, to increase our capacity for love and unity, might be one of the key characteristics of the life experience we’re having right now.
I agree. It's what makes the whole damn situation so baffling. We're supposed to try. We can't sit still. Even if we're hurdling towards our own destruction.
My only advice is to go inward and use whatever circumstance you find yourself in to improve yourself and find triggers to work on and patterns of avoidance to engage with.
It's main focus right now, on a personal level. Definitely. We need all the tools of unity and connection we can muster.
I don’t have answers, but I’m interested in potential solutions and salute all of you who are working to create a world we all want to live in.
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I've no idea where tech will take us. But I think it's lovely that it allowed us to meet such incredible people, if only for a brief while. ;)
I do think there is a future where we really can be all in this together like a family.
I think so, too. I hope we go towards it without sacrificing any of our children to the fates. :)
He is a great writer and a great person too. I'm so lucky to have met so many kind, intelligent people (present company included). I think for us to save ourselves we need to decouple from the meglomaniacs who wish to Lord over us, that's what decentralization is all about. It's human nature to fear change but if it's embraced we can harness and direct it to help us instead of harm us. Therein will lie the battle.
<3 Likewise.
It really seems unreal, doesn't it? That even under all this duress, there are all these good, valiant efforts (like decentralization). Probably why the only time you ever hear anything about it, it's either downgraded (decentralization seems to equate with crypto in the popular acceptance, and so, with get-rich-quick schemes), or rejected as fringe, dangerous, or tinfoil.
Thank you!
It's a testament to the human spirit. Each and everyone one of the old models are becoming outdated and withering our economy, especially. The pandemic has taught me to look hard at anything labeled as a "conspiracy". This was the establishment's blanket response to anything that didn't fit their narrative and they got away with it for a very long time.