by trod1234 | 2025-06-19 18:21:36+00:00
The reason we are here and exist today is because of great rationalist thinkers that were able to deduce and identify issues of survival well before they happened through the use of first principles.

The crazies and blind among humanity today can't think like that, its a deficiency people have, but they are still dependent on a group of people that are capable of that. A group that they are intent on ostracizing and depriving existence from in various forms.

You seem so wound up in the circular Paulo Freire based perspective that you can't think or see.

Bring things back to reality. If someone punches you in the face, you feel that fist hitting your face. You know someone punched you in the face. Its objective.

Imagine for a second and just assume that these people are right in their warnings, that everything they see is what you see, and all you can see is when you tip over a particular domino that has been tipped over in the past, a chain of dominoes falls over and at the end is the end of organized civilized society which tips over the ability to produce food.

For the purpose of this thought experiment, the end of the world is visible and almost here, and you can't change those dominoes after they've tipped, and worse you see the majority of people trying to tip those dominoes over for short term profit believing nothing they ever do can break everything.

Would you not be frothing at the mouth trying to get everyone you cared about to a point where they pry that domino up before it falls? so you and your children will survive? It is something you can't unsee, it is a thing that cannot be undone. Its coming. What do you do? If you are sane, you try with everything you have to help them keep it from toppling.

Now peal this thought back a moment, adjust it where it is still true, but you can't see it and you can only believe what you see.

Would you approach this differently given knowledge of the full consequence knowing that some people can see more than you? Would you walk out onto a seemingly visibly stable bridge that an engineer has said not to walk out on? Would you put yourself in front of a dam cracks running up the side, when an evacuation order was given? What would the consequence be for doing that if you led along your family and children to such places ignoring these things?

There are quite a lot of indirect principles that used to be taught which are no longer taught to the average person and this blinds them because they do not recognize it and recognition is the first thing you need to be able to act and adapt.

People who cannot adapt fail Darwin's fitness. Given all potential outcomes in the grand scheme of things, as complexity increases 99% of all outcomes are death vs life at 1%.

It is only through great care that we carry things forward to the future, and empower our children to be able to adapt to the environments we create.

Finally, we have knowledge of non-linear chaotic systems where adaptability fails because of hysteresis, where no matter how much one prepares the majority given sufficient size will die, and worse there are cohorts of people who are ensuring the environment we will soon live in is this type of environment.

Do you know how to build an organized society from scratch? If there is no reasonable plan, then you are planning to fail. Rather than make it worse through inaction, get out of the way so someone can make it better.