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I mean sure, the root cause of "lack of collective will" is human nature. I was pointing out the cause, not bringing up a solution. I also don't blame people fo

• TeMPOraL 5y ago
  I didn't mean to pass judgement on you, I apologize if it came across like this. I just keep seeing laments about "lack of collective will" in many discussions about important problems, and those mentions tend to be thought-terminating in the sense they feel like discharging responsibility. And my point is - we'll never have "collective will". The big problems, the persisting problems, are such because their very nature prevents spontaneous coordination. If we could just find the will to tackle them, we would have already. So there's no point in even talking about "collective will" - we need to focus on solutions that don't need it. (Or, we can just give up, enjoy what little time we have, and then watch the fireworks. They'll at least be interesting. I'm pretty sure many people think like that[0]. I myself thought like that in a darker period of my life, when I was deprogramming myself from the thought patterns instilled in me by an apocalyptic religion I grew up in - so I'm familiar both with how to blame the world's problems on "those masses of imperfect people" and how to protect your mind from going haywire over the belief that the world is in deep shit and you likely won't make it to the other end.) -- [0] - If we only had the collective will to work on solutions not requiring collective will...