In “Manufacturing Consent,” Noam Chomsky talks about the design of acceptable thought. People love to debate their opinions. As long as they debate things that are irrelevant to existing power structures, the status who will continue.
It has been a long time since we have had great social movements. Women’s rights, minority rights, workers’ rights, anti-war… By design, we now debate vocabulary and feelings. This is an injustice to mankind to matter what your feelings are about real issues.
ye, but did you see what he said during pandemic? specially about segregating non-vaxxed and let them be, if they starve perhaps we’d help them? don’t get me wrong, I’m his long time pupil. but his posture over the last three years are totally contradictory to everything he ever pleaded. even so, I agree with him about segregation. first thing to destroy are metropolises. didn’t work. period. go back to countryside, peasants, let’s go back to much much smaller communities. just not the way he put.
Well that’s an ad hominem argument, and we’re not chatting about vaccines. If we discounted every person’s area of expertise just because of something they said on a different topic, we would be unable to listen to any experts.
nah, not at all. I’ve agreed with your first paragraph, distractions. and the segregation part is exactly due to these vocabulary issues. there’s no need to fight cause there’s no way of comprehension. the idea of we all living as brothers and sisters is just an utopia. we are tribal. we need to go back to tribes.
There’s a lot to be said for that. In small populations with repeated interactions among the inhabitants, cooperative behavior is more likely. How many of our social problems only developed once we hit a critical population?
A deflationary currency encouraging a steady state economy such as described by Brian Czech, overcoming the myth that perpetual growth is the key to improving quality of life for humanity, and advocating for a more sustainable use of resources, will help us back toward a a more cooperative social contract.
problem ain’t overpopulation, that’s msm narrative. all the population of the world could be concentrated on the state of NY. problem is concentration. megalopolises full of peasants and plebs fighting for some space while bill gates becomes the biggest landowner of usa. but yeah, cooperative schemes, like it used to be in the past, like a few do nowadays.
bitcoin is that currency, mate. we only need the cooperative social pact now. or as I’ve been saying, our TAZ’s 🫡
citadels \o/
