People, on both the far right and far left often fantasize that this moment in time is a prelude to Revolution™ — the moment when they can finally enact the The System™ that people of their ideology have been dreaming of for decades.
They're wrong. We aren't on the cusp of a revolution. We are at the tipping point of a phase change, a social singularity. We have the opportunity to become something different than what's come before — something better — but it means letting the old world die.
We've gotten close to this precipice before, and every time we collectively do the absolute minimum to maintain the status quo and kick the can down the road. We can do the same again this time, but it will only delay the inevitable. A future society will simply end up here again, with the same choice.
So what are we waiting for?
A truly global society is not just the same thing we've always done, just writ large. It means playing by completely different rules.
What the hell am I talking about? Not sure, to be honest.
But one aspect is to kill the lie of "us" vs. "them"
There is no "them", there is only us. It's always been that way, even if we never had a great enough perspective to see it until lately.
We live on an isolated speck of pleasantness in a sea of death we can never leave (Earth). Everything anyone does here eventually affects everyone else. We are all connected and are all in the same fight together. All problems are global.
@malcircuit “Freedom” is a lie. John Muir talked about how you pick up a thing in nature only to find it is connected to everything else. Instead of “thinking outside the box”, burn the box.
