Recently I’ve reconnected virtually with Jesse Hirsh, who is hosting MetaViews. I have been making comments on some of the podcasts and articles in the notes part of this site, as well as some articles.
It's all over all the stuff I write, but basically, I just feel and know trends as they come and go (we all do) and this violent push against where we're going is a thrust, for sure, but it'll soon be a whimper. Misdirecting people to fight about causes and roots of what's really going on (we've enabled greed and fear to rule all of us) is the real problem, and the violence in both directions is losing its momentum, not gaining it. I can't cite evidence for optimism or pessimism, they're just human conditions, really, if you're content right now, you're going to feel like the world is content, and if you're unhappy right now, you're inclined to argue that an externality is making you unhappy. Figuring out how to be content is the only thing we need to do. We want to cite history, data, research, and play blame games, but monocultures fight just as nasty and with the same logical fallacies as multicultural ones do. It's human to oscillate between fear and greed, but we CAN get better at our reactivity. I'm optimistic that young people are seeing how pointless it is to blame history and institutions, and how important it is to build emotional resilience and cooperative mental health strategies to stay the course and be less reactive.
I loved this, and despite your cited source and other contrarian opinions, I believe science (specifically pharmaceuticals and robotics) will extend the average "old person's" median age to about 100...I think this will occur around 2040, but not sooner. I am basing this on nocebo and placebo research and the recent developments in artificial heart transplants and genetic revelations with stem cells and injection. BUT, I happily agree to disagree!
If by "average" you mean rich white people, then we agree.
I don't think we disagree as it relates to natural sciences and technology, but that you might not also be including social sciences and all the social hierarchies that Western worldview adherents create and impose.
When I think of averages I'm not only thinking of people who look like me and have incomes similar or above, but actual global human populations -- the vast majority of which were never were granted all the undue Priviledges I have.
I believe the future is far less dystopian than you do. I think we're going to conquer a lot of our issues and we're going to get better at sharing and seeing humanity as a cohesive whole. I just think there's some hard years between now and then
I see the growth in things such as the Manosphere which is trying to turn back the clock a few centuries, I see a growth in the violence of those with other gender ideologies (IE: that gender is a binary fixed to chromazones or some such unscientific nonsense), and I see a growth in racialization and other social constructs and hierarchies.
And I don't think I need to directly discuss the Climate Crisis, and how backward the antique foreign economic theories of Canada and the USA are.
It would take work to actually make progress, but I see very little recognition of the underlying problems. I see quite a bit of finger pointing from individuals to other individuals, not even recognizing that individualism itself is one of those ideologies certain cultures need to move past in order to even begin to think about the future you believe is possible.
I am aware of the "Myth of Progress" and I believed that myth in my own past, but have since become aware that the blind belief in that myth is actually the greatest barrier to actual progress.
It's all over all the stuff I write, but basically, I just feel and know trends as they come and go (we all do) and this violent push against where we're going is a thrust, for sure, but it'll soon be a whimper. Misdirecting people to fight about causes and roots of what's really going on (we've enabled greed and fear to rule all of us) is the real problem, and the violence in both directions is losing its momentum, not gaining it. I can't cite evidence for optimism or pessimism, they're just human conditions, really, if you're content right now, you're going to feel like the world is content, and if you're unhappy right now, you're inclined to argue that an externality is making you unhappy. Figuring out how to be content is the only thing we need to do. We want to cite history, data, research, and play blame games, but monocultures fight just as nasty and with the same logical fallacies as multicultural ones do. It's human to oscillate between fear and greed, but we CAN get better at our reactivity. I'm optimistic that young people are seeing how pointless it is to blame history and institutions, and how important it is to build emotional resilience and cooperative mental health strategies to stay the course and be less reactive.
I loved this, and despite your cited source and other contrarian opinions, I believe science (specifically pharmaceuticals and robotics) will extend the average "old person's" median age to about 100...I think this will occur around 2040, but not sooner. I am basing this on nocebo and placebo research and the recent developments in artificial heart transplants and genetic revelations with stem cells and injection. BUT, I happily agree to disagree!
If by "average" you mean rich white people, then we agree.
I don't think we disagree as it relates to natural sciences and technology, but that you might not also be including social sciences and all the social hierarchies that Western worldview adherents create and impose.
When I think of averages I'm not only thinking of people who look like me and have incomes similar or above, but actual global human populations -- the vast majority of which were never were granted all the undue Priviledges I have.
https://r.flora.ca/p/my-privileges
I believe the future is far less dystopian than you do. I think we're going to conquer a lot of our issues and we're going to get better at sharing and seeing humanity as a cohesive whole. I just think there's some hard years between now and then
Can you expand on why you have this optimism?
I see the growth in things such as the Manosphere which is trying to turn back the clock a few centuries, I see a growth in the violence of those with other gender ideologies (IE: that gender is a binary fixed to chromazones or some such unscientific nonsense), and I see a growth in racialization and other social constructs and hierarchies.
And I don't think I need to directly discuss the Climate Crisis, and how backward the antique foreign economic theories of Canada and the USA are.
It would take work to actually make progress, but I see very little recognition of the underlying problems. I see quite a bit of finger pointing from individuals to other individuals, not even recognizing that individualism itself is one of those ideologies certain cultures need to move past in order to even begin to think about the future you believe is possible.
I am aware of the "Myth of Progress" and I believed that myth in my own past, but have since become aware that the blind belief in that myth is actually the greatest barrier to actual progress.
https://apihtawikosisan.com/2013/08/we-cant-get-anywhere-until-we-flip-the-narrative/