[halayli]

When you read the title, "Why everything feels broken and what can we do", it is obvious op turned a me problem into an us problem.

It's a common pitfall to take yourself out of the equation when you are about to make assertions without evidence to back them up. The title could have been written as:

"Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it".

you will end up writing a completely different post as a result. a more sincere one, and one that is closer to the reality of the situation that needs to be addressed, and that is one's perceptions, biases, and feelings that come from our own personal experiences.

[pyrale]

> The title could have been written as: "Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it".

Sometimes collective action is required to fix an issue. Restricting people to individual action is depriving them of their freedom of association, a core enabler of democracy.

[kubb]

It’s an old strategy that tries to take agency from people by splitting them up.

If you convince many powerless people to work alone, they aren’t gonna be a threat.

[ffsm8]

Both of your comments have a grain of truth, just doesn't apply to this scenario.

what halayli wrote is spot on in this context. If you're writing a blog post and call it a day, then you're not trying to change the status quo. If he's giving talks, seeking out interviews etc to address this issue, you'd have a basis to argue your points...

But like this? No, it doesn't hold up.

It's super normalized however, and not specific to this blog. Most blogs seem to call on the reader to do things. And even if every reader did, you still wouldn't have changed the status quo, because that needs a way bigger investment.

[root_axis]

Seems like you've fixated on a detail about the title and have ignored the substance of the post. Whether or not some everyone agrees that "everything feels broken" doesn't really matter.

[randomcarbloke]

But the substance of the post appears to be word-salad and I've already had my five-a-day.

[atoav]

Well yes, but you then deny people a collective position. Please consider that we live in a world where strong corporate actors massively profit from us not having a collective position. Shifting responsibility to the individual is one of their strongest tools in the toolbox to ensure problems do not get solved.

I think it is important from time to time to exit the world of individual responsibility ("What can I do to reach the moon") and enter the world of collecrive organization ("What can we do ro reach the moon?"). You probably understand why.

[zwnow]

No OP is right. Everything is broken. Thinking your system isn't and its OPs issue is not sincere.

[icehawk]

Actually, when I read this, it was obvious that this issue was an us problem and not just a me problem.

[_Algernon_]

When the central thesis is that the brokenness comes from systemic issues there is very little a lone individual can do. That's the fundamental issue when it comes to systemic issues. The alternative article you suggest would therefore not be interesting.

It is strange finding this comment at the top given its fundamental misunderstanding of TFA.

[King-Aaron]

Except the OP is kind of right I feel.

[endymion-light]

No, I think the original post has the right idea. I think attempting to individualise this to your extent would dilute the original message and make the article slightly pointless

[Guthur]

Well certainly, some of us are all in on psychopathic material accumulation and so of course in that case the only things that are broken are those that stand in your way, such as morality or society.

[trod1234]

The framework derived also is based in power dynamic comparisons which are circular, without an objective base.

Its an opinion piece that has no real merit unless you tie it to reality.

[nudgeOrnurture]

> assertions without evidence to back them up

IMO:

This is becoming an increasingly annoying statement. Evidence and proof are spread across hundreds of books and manifest in institutional and corporate decisions every day. The news are a rolling release version of these manifestations that are a result of the entire spectrum between historical and current events and now even of the future, as AI companies and the particular policies entirely fail to account for the impact of the gap outlined in the article and other missing links.

A lot of problems were badly addressed or not at all because of the benefits for a few. Others and the very same and or but evolved problems were badly or not all addressed due to a shortage of manpower, which is a result of certain industries getting more marketing and attention and which came with a share of the benefits of those few. There was a lot of intention.

Mathematical models and historical evidence and even brutal proof were not enough to convince enough of the few to change course, exactly because people kept cancelling opinions and observations due to allegedly missing evidence to back up claims.

It really isn't about what individuals can do about the problems they see but about making more of the few understand that there is a dire necessity to accept that literally everybody knows what they and the people they hired have done and what they and those people are ignoring and what they absolutely can do but won't, usually because of some nonsensical narrative like behavioral lock in. It's bullshit. Pivot strategies are fucking awesome.

Those people understand articles like that, and those people understand their role and potential impact and while some might call that elite bashing and what not, it's really just a kind and constructive call out. They are a communist collective. A portfolio communist collective. If any of them alone act against the portfolio but for some greater capitalist good, that one individual gets thrown under the bus, which is why they must admit what the fuck they did and can do. Too many of them won't. These decisions are not made individually.

Individual biases, feelings, perceptions amplify collective biases, feelings, perceptions. That shit snowballs and turns into avalanches.

Humans are very used to stealing, poisoning and then laughing and diriving and driving feelings of dominance and supremacy from that. That's so damn mediocre medi-evil, it's not even nonsense anymore.

It's a common pitfall to demand evidence and proof that has been put into words, pictures, hard data and visualizations thousands of times prior and is presented everywhere, in contextual pieces and all the time.

The gravity of problems eludes the few because they think like communists and have a survival of the fittest bias. Only pieces of narratives can help them fix their cognitive processing. And a piece like "leverage arbitrage divergence" does a good job in booting up cancelled, repressed and electively ignored regions, layers, processes of brain and mind.