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Abundance leads to freedom, and freedom leads to virtue.

Here's this idea beautifully captured in this cool except from the book Chronicles from the Future - The Amazing Story of Paul Amadeus Dienach.

"They “live” the joy of nature, the joys of travel, love, music and dance, of kindness, friendship and the thrill of beholding the aesthetic. They enjoy the unimaginable, for our times, pleasure of working on what they really want, on what their souls desire, without anyone pressuring them! In this way, their inner world becomes enriched. They say that when you follow your inclinations, the aversion to evil is created automatically inside you. And the more you climb this spiritual mountain, the clearer you see life."

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Weatherall 1y ago

nope.

"With such a blind and naïve moralising approach, the whole vast storehouse of spiritual culture is devastated and its treasures detonated, all the creative spiritual charge of the human spirit turns out to be condemned and forbidden. Religiously drained, ridiculed and relegated; cognitively exhausted and blinded; artistically limited and enslaved; deprived of rights, defence and homeland, a man remains to the end of this anti-spiritual cyclone a miserable creature of one moral dimension, whose highest calling is self-compulsion to a helplessly sentimental mercy. A sentimental moralist knows only one dimension of perfection - the moral; the whole essence of the spirit, the whole life of the spirit is reduced to moral self-improvement; and all moral achievement for him boils down to the satiation of the soul with pitiful compassion. And as a result, all understanding of man, good and evil becomes shallow, flat and decadent"

Spencer 1y ago

That quote is breaking my ADD brain.

I agree that freedom does not necessarily lead to virtue.

The situation I had in mind with my original post is the instictual clawing over each other to survive, where our capacity for rational thought is short-circuited by the lizard brain struggling to get one more breath.

Remove a pile of clawing humans from a situation where most of them must surely drown, and instead give them some tasty BBQ, and I bet friendliness increases.