I'm reading a lot about indigenous European and American cultures. The thing that jumps out at me is their cultural agency and their flexibility-they made collective decisions based upon the circumstances and their values and priorities. Identity and tradition were consistently important. There was ALWAYS a collective and individual choice. It's striking to me that there's a sense of inevitability and powerlessness now. It's everywhere.
It seems that our global monoculture has been working to destroy the sense of freedom and possibility, and to replace it with a bureaucratic superstructure and a managed reality. I also happen to believe that society is going to make a sharp turn soon (it is making it right now, actually), but our efficacy will depend upon the strength and prescience of individuals and communities.
Priority #1 should be to relinquish some control from the Blob. #2 (and simultaneously) will be to build alternatives-to academia, film studios, media companies, social services bureaucracies, etc. We simply can't go much farther in the direction we're currently moving. The error and waste is massive and unsustainable, and people grow collectively less happy (but more comfortable) every day. Another 2 decades of this and most people will be without families, intact communities, productive work, or reasons to continue. Many of us are already there. Is this the vision we bought into?
"I am generally skeptical of BFPs (big future predictions)".
>>Church, bro.
"I dare say individual sovereignty will not take the form of libertarianism, libertinism, or up-by-the-bootstraps individualism."
>>Cathedral with flying buttresses, bro.
"cliodynamics"
>>Brozif, history cain't be no science.
"global demographic decline is inevitable"
>>Indeed. Demographics is the closest you'll ever get to a "BFP."
"many of those who talked up Human Design came from the 'consciousness community,' which includes hippies, integral theorists, reiki healers, and Burners."
>>And that's why for me all their jive is worse than a gauntlet across a chalkboard:
I'm reading a lot about indigenous European and American cultures. The thing that jumps out at me is their cultural agency and their flexibility-they made collective decisions based upon the circumstances and their values and priorities. Identity and tradition were consistently important. There was ALWAYS a collective and individual choice. It's striking to me that there's a sense of inevitability and powerlessness now. It's everywhere.
It seems that our global monoculture has been working to destroy the sense of freedom and possibility, and to replace it with a bureaucratic superstructure and a managed reality. I also happen to believe that society is going to make a sharp turn soon (it is making it right now, actually), but our efficacy will depend upon the strength and prescience of individuals and communities.
Priority #1 should be to relinquish some control from the Blob. #2 (and simultaneously) will be to build alternatives-to academia, film studios, media companies, social services bureaucracies, etc. We simply can't go much farther in the direction we're currently moving. The error and waste is massive and unsustainable, and people grow collectively less happy (but more comfortable) every day. Another 2 decades of this and most people will be without families, intact communities, productive work, or reasons to continue. Many of us are already there. Is this the vision we bought into?
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-new-right
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/leviathan
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and perspective on this Max, appreciate you.
"I am generally skeptical of BFPs (big future predictions)".
>>Church, bro.
"I dare say individual sovereignty will not take the form of libertarianism, libertinism, or up-by-the-bootstraps individualism."
>>Cathedral with flying buttresses, bro.
"cliodynamics"
>>Brozif, history cain't be no science.
"global demographic decline is inevitable"
>>Indeed. Demographics is the closest you'll ever get to a "BFP."
"many of those who talked up Human Design came from the 'consciousness community,' which includes hippies, integral theorists, reiki healers, and Burners."
>>And that's why for me all their jive is worse than a gauntlet across a chalkboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBLIYbNxsNs