Change is the Only Constant
adaptivism, climate, science, society
Change is the Only Constant
You actually can contemplate creating a new (cognitive) foundation for the world, something that vast numbers of very different people will actually want to count on. It’s been done before. It doesn’t require anything literally impossible. It’s not wilder than stuff respectable people discuss freely like “building AGI” or “creating a new and better... See more
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How does one prepare for a reorganization of the way we organize as a society? Culture? Nation? Species? How many OTHERs will be lost in the process?
It’s important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine. The evidence is all around us of tremendous suffering and tremendous destruction. The hope I’m interested in is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
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I wish, sometimes, briefly, I wasn’t so aware, informed, sensitive, self important, arrogant, compassionate, and (obviously) emotional. It is very painful to be a highly sensitive person. I’ve spent many years actually trying to dumb/numb/slow myself down.
I call this the high price of awareness.
I wonder what the experience of life is like for all t
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The ultimate tool for corporations to sustain a culture of this sort is to develop the 40-hour workweek as the normal lifestyle. Under these working conditions people have to build a life in the evenings and on weekends. This arrangement makes us naturally more inclined to spend heavily on entertainment and conveniences because our free time is so ... See more
raptitude.com • Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
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Dismayed. Disillusioned. Disenfranchised. Depressed.
Struggling to understand
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“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what."
"My mother didn't love me." So what.
"My husband won't ball me. So what.
"I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, b
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“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.“ -P Drucker
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