The Competitive Exclusion Principle predicts a dark outcome for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but that future can be averted if the world adopts a view of human civilization as a "superorganism."
Clearly, the tenets of Humanism would be ideal for everyone to follow. Humanism seeks the flourishing and happiness of all humanity and devoid of religious dogma.
Loved this article. I actually explored a similar idea through the lens of recognising our common humanity in contrast to the rising trend on dehumanization playing out on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I think the dehumanization aspect compliments the grand systems perspective you have presented by zooming in to a particular psychological construct that fuels separation of social organisms and bypasses evolutionary empathy circuits that allows for people of moral character to unwittingly sustain support for violence. You can read it here:
Love "unifying worldview" "global brain" "global ethos" "coherent superorganism." But the problem isn't that Israelis and Palestinians have different worldviews -- They share the same worldview of tribalism, religion, maintaining difference with relatively closed, protective boundaries to maintain tried-and-true traditions. But within both camps there are people without that worldview at all. Older people who remember when they all lived happily in the same towns. People interconnected on the web to a wider world. People who see more similarity than difference among people. The transcendent worldview that you call for is emerging everywhere. Paul Hawken wrote about it in his 2008 book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World. Grounded in the earth, literally, with no manifesto, no leader, people worldwide are growing their own systems, but are deeply interconnected by shared knowledge. Now we'll see which worldview will prevail -- Will we fall into the amplifying feedback loops of closure and distrust, or will we stop it and balance it with love and reason?
I absolutely agree with you, except I think to properly counter the dehumanizing effect of religion and capitalism, we need more than a new ethos. We need a new mythos.
I like this broad analysis. The currently dominant myths which guide western civ (global capitalism) have been polluted by corrupt leadership which deceive masses with evolving schemes. It's possible to use these shared myths to make psycho-spiritual & social advancements. But leaders promote the opposite by pitting people against each other, exploiting unnecessary scarcity, and especially by making people believe lies. The Orwellian view is not merely a post WW2 insight. It's part and parcel of a 5000 year old hierarchy.
Bad leadership is why Jesus went into the temple with a bullwhip and overturned the money tables that reliogious leaders used to sell animals for sacrifice. They were fleecing the public... and scrambling people's minds to get them to go along with it. It's a trend to say the least. A week after Jesus made his point, the court crucified him. Also an oft told tale if you look at it through the economic-political lens.
I guess the debate might remain: Were these lessons on humanity shaped consciously by people who do the fleecing? Or was it a collective and unconscious process of development? The Gospel of Judas reveals a Jesus who was angered by how his teaching would be used. Is this prophesy? Or just the foresight that comes from humanistic acumen and pattern recognition? Definitely I see why The Gospel of Judas got edited out of the official version. And I see a parallel with the humanities being defunded in modern universities.
What if Christianity was hijacked by the Roman empire because the ruling class saw the benefits of the mythos, but the message Jesus was spreading was representative of a natural human development that has been retarded since then?
The Christian religion in its modern form seems to have been created by the Romans, and hence, not surprisingly still benefits the ruling class.
It is clear that the ruling class operates institutions—including religion—in a way that holds back human potential. People ARE encouraged to develop advanced technical skills that are then compartmentalized within large systems. The entirety of society functions like the US atomic project during WW2—>the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. Or, rather, the first tentacle does not know what 995/1000 tentacles are doing. But people ARE NOT encouraged toward collective self-determination. If we were then the Freedom of Information Act would actually mean something. As of now it's a farce filled with redactions.
We always end up back at the same place, don't we? Few powerful resource hoarders making influential decisions that influences the rest of us sheeple.
And this happens while their power relies on our compliance. It almost seems like this power structure is built into our psyche.
I found this guy on Tiktok recently who is researching the ownership of Blackrock, and his research is leading him in an interesting, but not surprising, direction. I hope he gets there before he ends up dead.
It's important to acknowledge this recurrence across history. But I've been thinking about this discussion thread and started considering it in reference to the Road to Omega project. Bobby has an inspiring vision. Although I want to believe in it, maybe there's a gap we tend to fill with points about these corruption issues. I see the question as, "How do we move from here to an envisioned future if we don't trust society's leadership?" I don't want to weigh down the movement. But thoughts of distrust will inevitably come from somewhere if a systemic problem remains. I'm open to ideas on maintaining teleological focus.
Bobby recommends we consider each other's worldviews. Other commenters point out that people can lose sight of real value if we let dogma stand in the way of relating to our fellow humans. So, Andre, is there a way for us to better understand the people we see as barriers to humanity's progress? I feel like I have to build backward from their actions in the world to figure out what they want... what they're building. The more I consider their worldview the more I oppose it.
I don't see individuals as the problem, actually. Most people, regardless of their position, are good people. Of course, there are also the other kind, but traditionally groups have been able to deal with them via measures inherent in all cultures. But these measures depend on a group dynamic which seems lacking in the modern West.
The problem from my perspective, is systemic because of ideas. Ideas are mind viruses which grow and multiply and then become the norm. Of course, this has always been the way, but in the past we had feedback mechanisms because we lived in a certain kind of environment where nature would weed out counter-productive ideas naturally.
We have become so successful as a species though, that we have removed ourselves from this natural feedback mechanism and hence we have become grotesque.
I do not believe it has to be this way though. We have the potential for good and creating a healthy society, but this inclination has been usurped by the For Profit philosophy. And this has not happened naturally. Money attracts money, like power attracts power, so the natural end to this current system, is indeed the few owning most of the resources while the many live in a rat race for what is left. This outcome is built into the system itself. That is not what most people want though and is contrary to our natural inclination, I believe.
I am sorry I paid for half a year. Glad that I reduced it to one month with easy options. Sometimes things that seem too good to be true are. And I kick myself for my foolishness despite the attractive art. Looking for a magical fix in "consciousness" is a dilatants privilege. The truth elided is technological innovations without genuine social miracles will not save us. * (P2PF) Intellectual masturbation no matter how erudite is still masturbation and changes nothing for our brother and sister creatures.
Clearly, the tenets of Humanism would be ideal for everyone to follow. Humanism seeks the flourishing and happiness of all humanity and devoid of religious dogma.
🔸Religion: 'Pudding is the only way' 'Pasta is the only way' 'Salad is the only way'
🔸Spiritual: 'It's all food'
Mystics are the root and trunk of the same tree, the branches of which are different religions.
From youtube film "With One Voice"
https://youtu.be/r3o2kltX7RI
Loved this article. I actually explored a similar idea through the lens of recognising our common humanity in contrast to the rising trend on dehumanization playing out on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I think the dehumanization aspect compliments the grand systems perspective you have presented by zooming in to a particular psychological construct that fuels separation of social organisms and bypasses evolutionary empathy circuits that allows for people of moral character to unwittingly sustain support for violence. You can read it here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/unityunderground/p/the-crisis-of-dehumanization
Love "unifying worldview" "global brain" "global ethos" "coherent superorganism." But the problem isn't that Israelis and Palestinians have different worldviews -- They share the same worldview of tribalism, religion, maintaining difference with relatively closed, protective boundaries to maintain tried-and-true traditions. But within both camps there are people without that worldview at all. Older people who remember when they all lived happily in the same towns. People interconnected on the web to a wider world. People who see more similarity than difference among people. The transcendent worldview that you call for is emerging everywhere. Paul Hawken wrote about it in his 2008 book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World. Grounded in the earth, literally, with no manifesto, no leader, people worldwide are growing their own systems, but are deeply interconnected by shared knowledge. Now we'll see which worldview will prevail -- Will we fall into the amplifying feedback loops of closure and distrust, or will we stop it and balance it with love and reason?
I absolutely agree with you, except I think to properly counter the dehumanizing effect of religion and capitalism, we need more than a new ethos. We need a new mythos.
I like this broad analysis. The currently dominant myths which guide western civ (global capitalism) have been polluted by corrupt leadership which deceive masses with evolving schemes. It's possible to use these shared myths to make psycho-spiritual & social advancements. But leaders promote the opposite by pitting people against each other, exploiting unnecessary scarcity, and especially by making people believe lies. The Orwellian view is not merely a post WW2 insight. It's part and parcel of a 5000 year old hierarchy.
Bad leadership is why Jesus went into the temple with a bullwhip and overturned the money tables that reliogious leaders used to sell animals for sacrifice. They were fleecing the public... and scrambling people's minds to get them to go along with it. It's a trend to say the least. A week after Jesus made his point, the court crucified him. Also an oft told tale if you look at it through the economic-political lens.
I guess the debate might remain: Were these lessons on humanity shaped consciously by people who do the fleecing? Or was it a collective and unconscious process of development? The Gospel of Judas reveals a Jesus who was angered by how his teaching would be used. Is this prophesy? Or just the foresight that comes from humanistic acumen and pattern recognition? Definitely I see why The Gospel of Judas got edited out of the official version. And I see a parallel with the humanities being defunded in modern universities.
What if .....
What if Christianity was hijacked by the Roman empire because the ruling class saw the benefits of the mythos, but the message Jesus was spreading was representative of a natural human development that has been retarded since then?
The Christian religion in its modern form seems to have been created by the Romans, and hence, not surprisingly still benefits the ruling class.
It is clear that the ruling class operates institutions—including religion—in a way that holds back human potential. People ARE encouraged to develop advanced technical skills that are then compartmentalized within large systems. The entirety of society functions like the US atomic project during WW2—>the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. Or, rather, the first tentacle does not know what 995/1000 tentacles are doing. But people ARE NOT encouraged toward collective self-determination. If we were then the Freedom of Information Act would actually mean something. As of now it's a farce filled with redactions.
We always end up back at the same place, don't we? Few powerful resource hoarders making influential decisions that influences the rest of us sheeple.
And this happens while their power relies on our compliance. It almost seems like this power structure is built into our psyche.
I found this guy on Tiktok recently who is researching the ownership of Blackrock, and his research is leading him in an interesting, but not surprising, direction. I hope he gets there before he ends up dead.
It's important to acknowledge this recurrence across history. But I've been thinking about this discussion thread and started considering it in reference to the Road to Omega project. Bobby has an inspiring vision. Although I want to believe in it, maybe there's a gap we tend to fill with points about these corruption issues. I see the question as, "How do we move from here to an envisioned future if we don't trust society's leadership?" I don't want to weigh down the movement. But thoughts of distrust will inevitably come from somewhere if a systemic problem remains. I'm open to ideas on maintaining teleological focus.
Bobby recommends we consider each other's worldviews. Other commenters point out that people can lose sight of real value if we let dogma stand in the way of relating to our fellow humans. So, Andre, is there a way for us to better understand the people we see as barriers to humanity's progress? I feel like I have to build backward from their actions in the world to figure out what they want... what they're building. The more I consider their worldview the more I oppose it.
I don't see individuals as the problem, actually. Most people, regardless of their position, are good people. Of course, there are also the other kind, but traditionally groups have been able to deal with them via measures inherent in all cultures. But these measures depend on a group dynamic which seems lacking in the modern West.
The problem from my perspective, is systemic because of ideas. Ideas are mind viruses which grow and multiply and then become the norm. Of course, this has always been the way, but in the past we had feedback mechanisms because we lived in a certain kind of environment where nature would weed out counter-productive ideas naturally.
We have become so successful as a species though, that we have removed ourselves from this natural feedback mechanism and hence we have become grotesque.
I do not believe it has to be this way though. We have the potential for good and creating a healthy society, but this inclination has been usurped by the For Profit philosophy. And this has not happened naturally. Money attracts money, like power attracts power, so the natural end to this current system, is indeed the few owning most of the resources while the many live in a rat race for what is left. This outcome is built into the system itself. That is not what most people want though and is contrary to our natural inclination, I believe.
If life is a game, this region would be for those wanting to play in the highest difficulty. There are so many factors.
I am sorry I paid for half a year. Glad that I reduced it to one month with easy options. Sometimes things that seem too good to be true are. And I kick myself for my foolishness despite the attractive art. Looking for a magical fix in "consciousness" is a dilatants privilege. The truth elided is technological innovations without genuine social miracles will not save us. * (P2PF) Intellectual masturbation no matter how erudite is still masturbation and changes nothing for our brother and sister creatures.
"MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL" and How to Prevent It
❤️ Discredit totalitarian propaganda everywhere
🤣 Mock worship of dictators
❤️ Promote moral organizations
❤️ Actions by everyone creates freedom
https://youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M