I think the only way to solve what we’ve become is to enlighten the greed that evolution requires, i.e. we have to change to survive the environmental and technological overhang we’re skating on. The motivations of pain are poised to send us into a terminal musical chairs to the turtles stacked below, because of the overhang. I think that only a new kind of pleasure has a chance of diverting us, analogous to the scale of social changes the internet has brought.
I don’t think you can get there from here.
I think the only way to solve what we’ve become is to enlighten the greed that evolution requires, i.e. we have to change to survive the environmental and technological overhang we’re skating on. The motivations of pain are poised to send us into a terminal musical chairs to the turtles stacked below, because of the overhang. I think that only a new kind of pleasure has a chance of diverting us, analogous to the scale of social changes the internet has brought.