Afterwards these were returned to the shoal and they started dominating.

Moral development levels by Kohlberg tell a similar story where L1 is the narcissist (Zuck, Trump,...) level. Lobminmows. The current societal level or at least the direction.

L2 is the conventional moral as in the shoal that most of us follow. This level imitates the normal. See Musk as a prime example of the change. You can also revert to L1 by trauma, addiction...

L3 is the post conventional level where you do what's right and can differentiate between normal and right.

So L1 arrested development.

L2 herd moral and narrow empathy. Them vs. us being the right thing.

L3 being universal compassion.

L1 controls the airspace and L2 follows the loudest even though everyone (except the very few who are L1) wants the society to be L3.

So whether we dare to grasp this will decide the faith of our children and also us as the time is running out and the power has concentrated to very few L1.

And IMO the left and the right in the politics are both L2, with minor differences and both have failed us and served L1.

L1 is zillionaire mindset.(Rushkoff and the Mindset) L2 is Banal evil (Hannah Arendt and Banality of Evil) L3 is true ethics or ephics where ethical theory comes to praxis.

Sorry, perhaps bit off-topic but this is fascinating in light of latest news from Greenland and Davos. The current wouldn't have happened though without the help of Zuck, Cambridge Analytica etc.

I started reading this and it seems to be a good summary of what I'm thinking.

The authoritarian right wingers on both sides of the isle and the banal followers of the autoritarians.

It was a (steel and coal) corp affordances union to begin with, so it's no wonder it's pandering to business rather than civic interests after all.

Von der Leyen is corrupt yet shapes EU policy without backlash, and the citizenry is left to pay the price, precisely because the EU pretends to speak for the people.

Selection/rejection of the European Commission president (there is no such thing as the EU president) is indirect democracy, not popular vote. But it is still representative and democratic.

US contrast: in the US, citizens also don't vote for the President directly. Instead, we use a two-step system centered on the Electoral College.

Hypocrisy: if anyone (especially us American citizens) are going to argue that europeans should get to vote directly for the President of the EU commission, then they should also argue strongly to get rid of the Electoral System in the US and let the presidential popular vote be the decisive factor.

I don't think that's an unpopular idea as of 25 years ago now. With current technology, nationals should be a direct democracy (and with ranked choice votes, not FPtP), the house should be doubled (if not tripled since we stopped growing 100 years ago), and the supreme court should be expanded to at least 15.

And that's just the start of small updates we need for government.

And the democracy part which you got wrong. That's the salient point.

The EU is basically run by the Council, who are the national governments, all of whom are elected.

It's incredibly depressing that this keeps needing to be repeated when its been this way since the inception of the EU (with a small hiatus where we were gonna get a constitution).

The Commission can propose laws, but unless the Council (mostly) and Parliament (theoretically) agree, they won't happen.

Plenty of solutions, but politicians will never make it happen.

We calculated that capping personal emissions (mostly doable via peer pressure should we get this moving as normal people) to some top 1 percent 25 metric carbon ton and going plant based would get us net-zero while additionally getting rid of the zillionaire problem and adding extra 50-100 gigaton rewilding effect to the table.

With no bigger than marginal effect on anyone's QOL.

But we're SOL as the propaganda machines of the zillionaires keep dividing normal people to fake dichotomies.

Taking children to pedo islands.

Once we'll wake up to the fact that almost every human becomes corrupt when treated with enough power we'll grok this.

And provide mental health services to the zillionaires and also they'll be happier.

Nobody wants the future we're getting.

This.

0,9 grams per kg of LEAN weight is more than enough for normal activity.

You don't need to feed the fat any protein as it will only accumulate more fat.

And food produces a third of the emissions of humankind out of which full vegan would obliterate two thirds as in total of 25% of our emissions. Add the land use rewilding effect of 50-100 gigaton and we'd be net neutral with this one change.

Considering the iconic burning Macdonalds video and this recommendation we seem to be doomed.

I'm lovin it.

My intention is to intentionally block whatsapp calls.

And to use the oldskool telephone for emergencies.

I could have communicated it more clearly.

I learned that the real YF is one of the most faked people these days and YouTube doesn't seem to remove these after his takedown requests.

“The Dark Pattern by Guido Palazzo and Ulrich Hoffrage teaches us about the power of context, which is stronger than reason, values, morals, and best intentions. It is an uncomfortable and painful lesson about the root causes of 'corporate infernos.' "

The context matters.

Think of the banality of evil in WW2 Germany.

We are capable of doing almost anything, good or bad, as long as the shoal around does it and pretends it normal.