Quoting Bertrand Russell - "Most people would rather die than think".
It's a fitting quote because it captures the essence of human nature and ultimately concludes what the challenge for humanity really is - even when we entered into the "polycrisis" era as a collective. I think Daniel Schmachtenberger, John Vervaeke, and Iain McGilchrist did a wonderful discussion on this topic a few months ago. The key takeaway I got from the 3-hour long talk was "we need to make people fall in love with being again". Very true and very hard in the current climate of things.
I need to finish listening to that talk; I listed to a good bit of it, but I love that take away. So powerful, and highly related to my larger interest in disenchantment and re-enchantment. Thank you for sharing.
Polycrisis and hyperobjects are brand new to my lexicon, and helpful words to make sense of these too-big-to-comprehend concepts. Thanks, Spencer. This is an important piece.
Spot on. Nevertheless I believe that there is a role for capitalism in our world, provided due recognition is given to the finite nature of resources and the fundamental impossibility of infinite real growth. Furthermore any long-term viable capitalist system, like any stable ecological system, must be constrained via negative feedback control. For those not conversant in engineering terminology, breaking up monopolies to prevent price gouging is an example of negative feedback control.
Quoting Edward Abbey, "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell."
Glad you enjoyed :) I agree with that too, I think markets are useful but need a lot more regulation!! I actually talk about this a bit in my Information Asymmetry essay and my If capitalism is a cancer, what are we essay!
Quoting Bertrand Russell - "Most people would rather die than think".
It's a fitting quote because it captures the essence of human nature and ultimately concludes what the challenge for humanity really is - even when we entered into the "polycrisis" era as a collective. I think Daniel Schmachtenberger, John Vervaeke, and Iain McGilchrist did a wonderful discussion on this topic a few months ago. The key takeaway I got from the 3-hour long talk was "we need to make people fall in love with being again". Very true and very hard in the current climate of things.
I need to finish listening to that talk; I listed to a good bit of it, but I love that take away. So powerful, and highly related to my larger interest in disenchantment and re-enchantment. Thank you for sharing.
Polycrisis and hyperobjects are brand new to my lexicon, and helpful words to make sense of these too-big-to-comprehend concepts. Thanks, Spencer. This is an important piece.
Spot on. Nevertheless I believe that there is a role for capitalism in our world, provided due recognition is given to the finite nature of resources and the fundamental impossibility of infinite real growth. Furthermore any long-term viable capitalist system, like any stable ecological system, must be constrained via negative feedback control. For those not conversant in engineering terminology, breaking up monopolies to prevent price gouging is an example of negative feedback control.
Quoting Edward Abbey, "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell."
Glad you enjoyed :) I agree with that too, I think markets are useful but need a lot more regulation!! I actually talk about this a bit in my Information Asymmetry essay and my If capitalism is a cancer, what are we essay!
Yes. Just yes. And also: trophic pyramid.