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Awareness. Present people with a real problem, explain its implications, and show how someone can make a difference, and you get action. Most people want to do
by npunt 13y ago
Awareness. Present people with a real problem, explain its implications, and show how someone can make a difference, and you get action. Most people want to do the right thing, but can't figure out where to start or what good looks like.
The culture our kids grow up in (through media, educational institutions, community support, etc) is not particularly good at this yet. The work we can do on the internet is to translate phenomena into data, stories, and experiences that build awareness of problems and build skills to solve them.
- tiatia 13y agoYeah. North Korea is pretty good in this to help people figure out what they want. The typical person is closer to Homer Simpson than to the intelligent, long term thinking and rational decision making individual.
- rasz_pl 13y agoNow that you mentioned it, Idiocracy (2006) is also post scarcity idyllic universe.