The survival of our species will in many ways turn on whether enough of us make the transition from "What's in it for me?" to "What's in it for us?"

Jun 10, 2023 · 11:51 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
With the greatest of respect - that's such old idealist nonsense. Conformity isn't a solution, people never react well to it cos fundamentally it's always oppressive. Humans have always without fail had far more success by increasing lawful opportunities. Whatever it is you feel is the big bad or problem right now leading to tragedy of the commons the solution is going to be looking beyond the symptoms, drilling down to the causes and then figuring out how you treat that in a way that increases opportunity. Then people will get on board, conform even of their own accord. Not through altruism of "what's in it for us" but through "what's in it for me". Because we don't really change, "what's in it for me" is core to human survival in a way that "what's in it for us" has never been, even though it's an "us" society was itself in it for "me". It doesn't help that when people do go on about "us" inevitably sooner or later it ends up being "us" in the sentence "us and them" because that "us" is abstract and always will be, it's never "me" and "you".
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Eat the bugs for all of us!
Replying to @marwilliamson
Which is not something you can change as president
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Newsflash: 1965 is over. John & Yoko are not a thing. It's the Deep State that prohibits people from living the way you aspire for them to live. Trump can get us there.
Replying to @marwilliamson
That is the opposite of what made the United States of America the best country in history. The individual is paramount in our Constitution. I guess we should take you at your word. It is your intention to take this country into communism.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Humans are dumb animals and cannot do community or altruism at scale. It's a nice thought, but history and evolution show us that it isn't possible under the current "fight or flight" paradigm in which we are deeply entrenched. Your educational privilege makes you naive.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Biden = Noriega. "Noriega's authoritarian rule in Panama has been described as a dictatorship, and was marked by repression of the media, an expansion of the military, and the persecution of political opponents, effectively controlling the outcomes of any elections."
Replying to @marwilliamson
Biden promised to unify the country, but most of the haters still hate, and now that Biden has weaponized the DOJ and IRS, Biden has now created a new sect of haters. Biden has divided the country more than even Obama did.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Fat chance of that! (Sarcasm!) When 4 out of 5 people all demand to be treated as if they are clearly better than average, 2 of those 4 will always be angry as hell for not being high enough up.