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'''Before we do anything, first we 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 move, but when people start to follow, a power dynamic generates. Power is addictive, it overwhelms a once idealistic spark and metamorphosizes it into wanting to be a long term flame. It starts to believe sacrifices need to be made for perpetuity. | '''Before we do anything, first we 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 move, but when people start to follow, a power dynamic generates. Power is addictive, it overwhelms a once idealistic spark and metamorphosizes it into wanting to be a long term flame. It starts to believe 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... | 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 all have supercomputers in our pocket delivering us in realtime and music or movie we have ever wanted. But to continue is like a Mars rover mining for more information about the planet. We are at, or past a moment of satiety we have eaten enough, its 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. Its 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 100% 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. Its 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 100% of people would choose the former. No one is fully altruistic. | ||