Andrew McCluskey

The World Happiness Report suggests that altruism – acts that aim to improve another’s wellbeing – improves your own sense of wellbeing, leading to high life satisfaction and experiencing more positive emotions and fewer negative emotions.

As TikTok video essayist Rayne Fisher-Quann wrote in her Substack essay on “micro-individuality”, “everyone seems to be more obsessed with individuality and differentiation than ever before, while simultaneously participating in one of the most intoxicating lifestyle reproduction mechanisms in human history.”

Decentralization is the kind of thing that only matters when troubles arise. It's like an insurance: most of the time you don't need it, but for the few times you do need it, you REALLY need it. Since we can't have "intermittent decentralization", turn it on & off with a switch, this means we need it permanently