A New Paradigm
We need a new way of organizing - a new paradigm for human cooperation on a global scale.
A New Paradigm
Instructions before visiting Earth
In the event that you wake up
and find your soul separated from source
and manifest into material form, don’t panic.
Your condition is only temporary.
You have been selected for the opportunity
of human incarnation.
This 3D simulation is designed
to break up the monotony of eternity
by giving you a fully immersive
... See moreInstructions before visiting Earth
Is this treating things as people, or treating people as things? “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Either way I think it’s evil, and the evil is not the technology—it’s the dreams of the people trying to sell it to us.
Rusty Foster • A.I. Isn't People
Anthropomorphizing the machines to normalize them as workers…that are replacing people to the economic benefit of plutocrats.
Any one else feel this way? Despite getting the degree, working for the Fortune 500 company but with no benefits, no paid time off, and insultingly low pay… can barely afford the “privilege to pay my bills,” let alone travel. Fucked up.
“True fellowship among people must be based upon a concern that is universal. It is not the private interests of the individual that create lasting fellowship, but rather the goals of humanity.”
#13 - Fellowship with Men, I Ching
[In recent times, with so much celebrated lack of nuance, monetized antagonisms and gamified divisiveness, for some, this
... See moreThis is all, unfortunately, a microcosm of the problems we face. We’re up against a system that views and treats hyper short-term profits as more important than our collective future. We’re up against corporations and ways of doing business that would ignite the planet before letting their profits fall – and that’s exactly what they’re doing. We,... See more
Joshua P. Hill • 200 (and 1)
The finite resources in this world — natural, land, people’s time — are all managed through one system, and this system is currently over-indexed on encouraging corporations to pursue profit at the expense of societal welfare.
Wendy Liu • Abolish Silicon Valley
What gives multinational corporations the right to pollute the air we breathe, drain our groundwater and exhaust our planet’s dwindling resources – and deprives us of the right to stop them? One powerful idea: private property. Because the rich own things, and the poor do not, it is legal for the rich to destroy Earth and illegal for the poor to... See more