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- Aug 2023
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Our real challenge, perhaps, is in relearning what the “collective interest” actually means, and why it is so important, and how we got to this perverse situation where we have such monstrous distrust of each other, and of collectives in general, that we have assumed that, somehow, 7.8B people acting in their isolated individual, personal, and often trauma-influenced self-interest, will somehow be synonymous with an optimal collective interest.
- for: further inquiry, unpack, self-other entanglement, dual, nondual
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- Our real challenge, perhaps, is in relearning what the “collective interest” actually means,
- and why it is so important,
- and how we got to this perverse situation
- where we have such monstrous distrust of each other,
- and of collectives in general,
- that we have assumed that, somehow, 7.8B people acting in their
- isolated
- individual,
- personal, and often
- trauma-influenced
- self-interest,
- will somehow be synonymous with an optimal collective interest.
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- it points once again to a deeper understanding of the relationship between
- self and
- other
- and their entanglement
- it points once again to a deeper understanding of the relationship between
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how can we possibly reform or design a political system so that it mitigates and legislates against gross inequality, without getting utterly mired in insoluble issues of rights?
- for further inquiry, unpack
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ut as soon as you scale the system up, and have to introduce criminal laws, enforcers, punishments and sentences, the whole system breaks down.
- for: further inquiry, unpack
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