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I am all for a complete re-write, but not on the level of society, but on the level of you and me. If you could see into the future and know for a fact that yo
by alexashka 6y ago
I am all for a complete re-write, but not on the level of society, but on the level of you and me.
If you could see into the future and know for a fact that you couldn't change a thing about it, would your concerns cease to have meaning?
If the answer is yes, then it is a matter of determining what in your short lifetime, you can realistically change and what you cannot.
For me, I've determined that the things I cannot change are human nature, including my own. What I can do is modify my lifestyle to be exposed to more of the human traits I cherish and fewer of the ones I resent.
That's the conclusion I've come to. Housing prices and inequality simply don't make the list of things I can do anything about and even if I could, I believe I'd be playing human sin whack-a-mole. I whack one sin, another one pops up. At some point, I just had to accept that there are traits human possess that upset me, and find lifestyle solutions to mitigate them, that's all :)
- bergstromm466 6y ago> I've determined that the things I cannot change are human nature This line of argument scares me, because we are so unaware of how human made our problems are. "Money is like an iron ring we've put through our noses. We've forgotten that we designed it, and it's now leading us around. I think it's time to figure out where we want to go - in my opinion toward sustainability and community - and then design a money system that gets us there." http://archive.is/nxKTO http://archive.is/nxKTO