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'''Before anything effective can be done, we first need to look at what has come before.''' There have been many great movements, they start with good intentions but ultimately fail. Idealism is the spark, desperate people follow, but inevitably a power dynamic generates. Power is addictive, it overwhelms idealistic people and starts to convince them that sacrifices need to be made for perpetuity. | '''Before anything effective can be done, we first need to look at what has come before.''' There have been many great movements, they start with good intentions but ultimately fail. Idealism is the spark, desperate people follow, but inevitably a power dynamic generates. Power is addictive, it overwhelms idealistic people and starts to convince them that sacrifices need to be made for perpetuity. | ||
It's a common cycle. The want of power which then corrupts. But past movements did not have technology we have today... The corporate era was fantastic, we now have supercomputers in our pocket delivering us realtime infinite music and movies we have ever wanted. We are at, or past a moment of satiety we have eaten enough, | It's a common cycle. The want of power which then corrupts. But past movements did not have technology we have today... The corporate era was fantastic, we now have supercomputers in our pocket delivering us realtime infinite music and movies we have ever wanted. We are at, or past a moment of satiety we have eaten enough, we are leading to what Einstein predicted as an "all-powerful" bureaucracy that leads to the "complete enslavement of the individual"<ref>Isaacson, Walter (2007). "One-Worlder, 1945–1948". ''Einstein: His Life and Universe''. Simon & Schuster. pp. 504–505. ISBN <bdi>1416539328</bdi>. LCCN 2006051264.</ref>. It's time as a planet to rest and digest. | ||
In Plato's Republic, there is the story of the Ring of Gyges which apparently inspired Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. It's a thought experiment, Plato postulates if someone were given a ring which makes them invisible they would have to make a binary choice. Either rob a bank or anonymously help a homeless person. Plato's arguments is that the majority of people would choose the former. No one is fully altruistic. | In Plato's Republic, there is the story of the Ring of Gyges which apparently inspired Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. It's a thought experiment, Plato postulates if someone were given a ring which makes them invisible they would have to make a binary choice. Either rob a bank or anonymously help a homeless person. Plato's arguments is that the majority of people would choose the former. No one is fully altruistic. | ||