Your agreement cannot be acquired after the fact through discussion, nor can mine. You either already get it or you never will. I’m either wrong or right.
Humans…
1. They are not convinced or persuaded by logic, reason, or evidence.
2. They deploy Intelligence to justify positions adopted for emotional reasons.
3. Those emotions are involuntary responses to external stimuli.
4. Their volition is most easily manipulated without their knowledge.
5. All humans are biased and are being thus manipulated by some faction to some degree, even me.
6. This can be overcome with conscious effort to choose actions and support positions.
Given these facts, and given a choice between thought and action, do we act to manipulate humanity for the purpose of liberating it?
Social strategic priorities should be, in order of importance:
1. Opposition to the dismissal of suffering amongst ANY set of humans. This is what makes us worthy of power. Suffering and death themselves are the enemy. Not any group of humans, because whatever groups serve suffering and death are or were sourced by suffering and death in turn. Elimination of the root causes will do set selection opposition for us in time.
2. Development and defense of nuclear power technology generally, LWR<Thorium<Fusion. This is what enables us to acquire power. Technology is our only route to freedom, and to develop it and deploy it ethically there must be enough to go around without vulnerability to infantile division tactics built on quasi-human notions of who “deserves” what, which is at best nothing but short term infighting and brinksmanship.
3. Support for a UBI. This is what enables us to indiscriminately democratize power without conscious or unconscious bias. If our goal is to improve all humanity’s fate we should literally put our money where our mouth is and not begin with discrimination.
These are all one truth.
Do you agree or disagree?
Whatever answer you make, how ever long winded (or silent) and thick with obfuscation I will render it down to one or the other so you might as well start with that word or not answer at all.
