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The Starlight Express Way's avatar

Thank you for this Brett, it was really useful and interesting. You told a much more honest story that I intuitively knew but didn't have all the facts.

I've been thinking deeply about this stuff for some time and believe that the development of states, economies, colonialisation, industrialisation and technology has led us away from the natural blueprint of human existence and expression and is leading us over a cliff to a point of extinction.

I am increasingly convinced we have become a completely captured species and are the subjects of a very deliberate integrated strategy of destruction, poisoning and enslavement by the elites, probably powered by AI. Our entire planet has been poisoned, our food, our soils, our water, the seas, our skies, our clothes, our air, our minds, our health, our culture, our schools, our democracies, our governments, our institutions, literally everything, in the name of money and profit for the benefit of elites... and we are all dependent on and addicted to technology that harms us and we had no say in the development of.

We weren't all demanding smart phones and AI in the 80's, yet here we all our, unable to function in society without them because our choices have been removed for the benefit of the people who own that technology. It increasingly trains us to give away our consent willy nilly to stuff we don't even understand, we didn't ever vote to have robots run everything in the world at the loss of our care and humanity and sovereignty.

Much of these dynamics have been enforced through the creation and use of hierarchy, which is an unnatural man-made design device which forces us to collude with this unnatural pattern in order for us to survive, within a systemically unequal and corrupted system.

Our entire society is designed on man made hierarchies, we've forgotten how to organise or think in any other way, which are in essence subjugating. The nature of hierarchy is that it forces the over expression of masculine qualities and the under expression of feminine qualities, all the benefit moves up to the top and all the pain and cost is felt at the bottom.

Is this really the best we can do as a civilised, advanced species? I don't buy it. I'm increasingly convinced we need to step out of money, hierarchy and law completely and reinvent technology in a way that doesn't cause us or the planet harm. We're like frogs being slowly boiled alive, it'll be too late to jump out soon if we're not careful!

The big question is how we do that given the vested interests of those in power to maintain the status quo? And what more natural, equal and sustainable ways of organising could we move to instead?

Would love to have a chat with you at some point if you're open to it 😊🙏

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Thomas H. Greco, Jr.'s avatar

Thanks Brett, informative and thought provoking, as usual.

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Word salad (ing) (munching)'s avatar

What about grazing, surely hunting and gathering is colonial?

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Andrew Kramp's avatar

Is this available to stream as a podcast?

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