Comments | kanzeon_2040: 5 minutes of meditation

kanzeon_2040

5 minutes of meditation

Oct 31, 2022 20:59

Starting that old meditation game over, hah. 5 minutes showed me I don't have much on my mind, but my feet felt cold. So after I was done I grabbed another fleece blanket from the living room stack, then I put on a sweater and socks. OK, now I'm warm again ( Read more... )

democracy, meditation, zero population, global green communism, ban fossil fuels

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matrixmann November 1 2022, 01:26:27 UTC

I would much stronger advise you to keep away from those groups who glue themselves to each and everything in order to block traffic and what the heck - even from the idea to become one of their activists ( ... )

kanzeon_2040 November 1 2022, 09:46:24 UTC

I'll take your point as a useful warning that activism often turns off the public rather than rallying them. It's something I'm thinking about.

When the Freedom Riders broke the law in the 1960s by boarding segregated buses in the South, it was about spreading freedom to those who were unfairly oppressed. The immense problem with actually fixing the climate is that it requires more regulation of everyday life and the destruction of economic opportunity, even for those at the bottom of the pile - it would reduce median household income in the US to a point below the currently calculated poverty line.

I could sit down and block traffic and go to jail for a while, but I'm not going to make "degrowth" popular that way. But I'm not seeing any way to make it popular. Proposals like the Green New Deal, which try to make fixing the climate popular, pretend that the bottom half will prosper as we decarbon the economy by promising a simultaneous expansion of the social safety net. I view this as a pipe dream, especially when applied ( ... )

matrixmann November 1 2022, 11:46:32 UTC

"I'll take your point as a useful warning that activism often turns off the public rather than rallying them."

That's not my message.
What I'm saying is: Please open your eyes. Please look what's happenening and what's in front of you.

This is a world where rich people and even the state fosters people which they later claim to want to fight.
This is a world where parts of the system collaborate with those who claim they want to destroy it.
This is a world where the system tries to eliminate all movements that are truly directed against the way it works ( ... )

kanzeon_2040 November 1 2022, 13:10:36 UTC

Think "What will I accomplish by doing this or that?"

Excellent advice.