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RE: We can't afford to be snowflakes, you have to deal with the fact that someone might offend you! (A reply to Kenny part one)

in #philosophy8 years ago (edited)

I agree that propaganda and marketing is a big problem! Maybe no one could come up with a market solution for this problem, I don't know.

I definitely wouldn't mind if everyone focused less on monetary profits and more on sustainability, and health. But to my understanding, humans always seek profit, and I mean "profit" in a very wide sense here. Profit in the sense that I managed to meet my goal. If my goal is to help a hungry person and I meet this goal. I made a mental "profit".

So how do we shift peoples goals from "accumulating a lot of stuff" to "living in a sustainable way"?

I think it has a lot to do with time preference and being an educated and thinking individual, instead of being schooled. I think a free market would push us in the right direction. I think people today are scared and stressed. This contributes to not reflecting about what is important. It contributes to people buying more stuff and feeling the need to save more money. If we had a free market I think everyone would have more prosperity (except for the former rulers). I think that could give people a little pece of minde and maybe people would work less and spend more time whit their children.

What do you think we can do?

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As far as I can tell, the most important thing is definitely shifting the cultural paradigm away from the fear & separation humans currently experience, mostly due to childhood trauma, lack of community, intentional programming (school, media, etc), artificial scarcity, and so on.

In terms of what we can do, ourselves, right now, to move in that direction, I see these as the key steps:

  1. Practicing radical honesty, forgiveness, and compassion. We have to integrate our own trauma (and that of our ancestry) in order to become healthy, joyous, whole humans ourselves, so we are not part of the problem.
  2. Communicating these healing journeys & ways of being to others. Shining our light as an example to all those we interact with.
  3. Raising children, once we have gone through this process ourselves, so that we don't pass these same traumatic & limiting patterns on to the next generation, allowing them to go much farther than we can even imagine.
  4. We must all act in alignment with our own morals & ethics. As long as humans are acting out of alignment with themselves, not only are they causing their own suffering, but they are feeding all the things that they claim to not want in the world. (Anarchists paying taxes, Vegans buying food from companies that sell animal products, etc)

Sounds great! I really think people need to build a community or a tribe from the ground up. :)