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by mykull
2950 days ago
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Let's go out on a limb here and consider that people aren't overly self critical, and the problem is actually that they can't do anything about their failure to meet high self expectations, because they are in effect trapped in a prescribed lifestyle where they have no power to make meaningful change. Let's go out on a limb and consider that while being less critical of yourself addresses the symptoms of disappointment, it doesn't address the causes of inutility of smart and capable people. Let's consider that the quote "it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" is actually pretty insightful. We are, as a culture and a species, failing in myriad ways. In my humble opinion, we should feel bad and we should change as well. We're just powerless to do much because of the strength of institutions that exist out of ritual and not out of rationality. We're left to hate ourselves, because nature and ignorant humans with money and power do not care what we think, and have an answer for everything we do. |
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Furthermore, is there evidence that mankind is meant to be well? I've heard native Americans talk about how nobody went hungry and nobody was broke before the concepts that colonialism brought to reality, but isn't that part of the cost of a modern world?
It's horrific that human history reveals that periods of conflict are usually actually pretty helpful for advancing technology (ww2, middle east, Internet to some extent), but there's no obvious alternative.
It seems that humans are invested in not going collectively backwards, technologically and this the possibilities created by new things becomes a sort of ew cursive expectation that we are trying to meet.
Folks a hair older than I am remember a time when man had not gone to space, much less landed on the moon. Now we are within several decades of having permanent structures on the moon that human beings will live on. It took us tens of thousands of years, but now we are here.
Humans being have to go forward until there's a better alternative.
Personally, I think we'll all be better off when AI surpasses us. If we behave, maybe it will fix our planet and leave us somewhere safe while it explores the cosmos.
I don't hate myself, either. I used to, but I had to stop when I put the bottle down. I'm not a psychologist, but self loathing is very often linked to some sort of addiction or disruptive emotional condition, just by my experience with other addicts and other miscreants like myself.