Patricia Aas on Nostr: I’m reading and watching so many people trying to figure out how to grapple with an ...
I’m reading and watching so many people trying to figure out how to grapple with an economic system that produces outcomes that threaten to eat us all alive.
And I think, as humans, we want there to be an evil cabal somewhere that is plotting against us, that has actual power and control.
And I suspect that’s actually not true. Sure there are people with power and for sure some of them are plotting against us, project 2025 is a literal example of that, but it is also an example of them not having control. If they did, they would just do it, they would have no need for all this mess in public.
Here I think maybe Dan Davies in The Unaccountability Machine is right: the system, which is our societies and economies on a local and global scale, this system has evolved over centuries, and has emergent and adaptive behaviors. Behaviors that aren’t fully in anyone’s control.
And I think maybe this instinctive reach for an enemy to fight is distracting us from more analytically understanding this system.
And I think understanding the system, at least more than we do now, is critical to changing it.
And without that level headed analysis no amount of revolution will avoid it falling back into its base outcomes.
To quote Kamala’s mother: “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you”
And I think, as humans, we want there to be an evil cabal somewhere that is plotting against us, that has actual power and control.
And I suspect that’s actually not true. Sure there are people with power and for sure some of them are plotting against us, project 2025 is a literal example of that, but it is also an example of them not having control. If they did, they would just do it, they would have no need for all this mess in public.
Here I think maybe Dan Davies in The Unaccountability Machine is right: the system, which is our societies and economies on a local and global scale, this system has evolved over centuries, and has emergent and adaptive behaviors. Behaviors that aren’t fully in anyone’s control.
And I think maybe this instinctive reach for an enemy to fight is distracting us from more analytically understanding this system.
And I think understanding the system, at least more than we do now, is critical to changing it.
And without that level headed analysis no amount of revolution will avoid it falling back into its base outcomes.
To quote Kamala’s mother: “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you”