[jalapenos]

This is a very powerful concept, but people don't trust in it as much as they used to, because our culture has become hostile to it.

Sexual promiscuity is counter to it. This level of fine detail requires a culture of commiting to a specific individual rather than a quantifiable generic gain.

School is counter to it. It wants to shoehorn people into a specific definition of achievement.

Internet is counter to it. The internet creates a top 5% winner takes all format of personal value to others.

Government is hostile to it. If you fail to reproduce, they'll replace you more than twice over anyway with immigrants from cultures which aren't as broken.

It's unfortunate people have become so hostile to each other, almost reducing society to a me (predator) vs others (prey) situation.

[cpill]

Having lived in Germany for about 10 years (I'm Australian) I found their attitudes to most things more mature than ether Australia or what is portrayed in American media. Europeans always seem to step back, try to find a compromise and ideally mutual benefit. Asian cultures have also quite different again. I found the refreshing thing about 'Spirited Away', the animation, is the character arc for the "adversarial" characters which was they are like that because of pain, lets understand them, and then help them thought it and grow together. Whereas in American content it predominantly seems to be they are just "bad" so if they beat us just get a bigger gun and that will solve that/all problems. Always zero-sum games with shallow looks into who people are any why they are like that. Its almost like the dog-eat-dog spirit of the wild west is still prevalent somehow...? You see this played out in American politics too. No attempts at compromise or understanding, opposition must be annihilated, no middle ground.

[jalapenos]

Yep, narcissism 101, any conflict is to be remedied by increasing force on the other side until they're defeated.

[luzojeda]

>It's unfortunate people have become so hostile to each other, almost reducing society to a me (predator) vs others (prey) situation.

This stems from the same increasing winner takes all format that it is not only predating the internet but many other environments as well. Inequality is another factor in the equation. When you don't have a social net, it's a winner takes all/ everyone against everyone/last man standing situation..

It is sad. But I wonder if this is the average human, in its sedentary way of living as it has been for the last 14k years approx, situation. And what we've lived the last 60~ years was just an anomaly product of the huge and numerous industrial revolution benefits and advancements.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

You're right about the Internet. But being promiscuous and not having children is what I want for myself, at least for this year