A Realistic Way for People to Live Together

[LMNO]

Heh.  Well, the way I see it, if a hack authour constructs a fictional wise man as part of an ongoing fraud, he needs to rip off some wise statements from inscrutable masters, cuz he sure as hell can't come up with it himself. 


And considering that Morihei Ueshiba made that statement in the early 1900s, the conclusion should be obvious.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Heh.  Well, the way I see it, if a hack authour constructs a fictional wise man as part of an ongoing fraud, he needs to rip off some wise statements from inscrutable masters, cuz he sure as hell can't come up with it himself. 


And considering that Morihei Ueshiba made that statement in the early 1900s, the conclusion should be obvious.

Fact is I learned it by reading the hack and never heard of MU. So he did me a great service. Course if it came from MU then it was teamwork. I'd like to thank them both, plus the guy who suggested I read the book in the first place.

[Bhode_Sativa]

There already exists a model for a realistic way for people to live together.  Humans have been around as Homo Sapiens for the last two hundred thousand years.  It is only in the last ten thousand that we have managed to fuck the planet beyond hope.  How were people living before our current model of power hungry greed?  They were living just like Aborigines and the Indian population before Whitey raped the New World.  Small bands of people hunting and gathering and leading meaningful lives where interpersonal relationships meant something, where every individual could see their place in the whole, their own significance.

Tribes that compete with each other, and have well defined borders = diversity

diversity = success because if one tribe fails, others will succeed.

America/the west = forced conversion / inviolable conformity = inevitable failure

but whereas one tribe failing would not have large impact the failure of modern ways of life is trashing the entire planet = Game Over your species Lost. 

[LMNO]

But what about my Internets?

Aboriginals don't have Internets!

[LHX]

its true

all this shit was necessary to establish teh intranets

now that we got it - the legacy of production/oppression/exhaustion can take a nap

[AFK]

But what about my Internets?

Aboriginals don't have Internets!

That's because they don't drive trucks.

[LMNO]

TUBES, MOTHERFUCKER!

[LHX]

those pirates drive some mean trucks

[AFK]

And even so, hollowed out tree-trunks would probably make awful tubes. 

[Bhode_Sativa]

As I see it, the only tangible benefit from the Cancer of Progress is the ease of Idea exchange.  Better communication results in better ideas, but people are still just as stoopid. 

[LMNO]

How about this... due to population explosion, the proportion of stupid people to smart is the same, but there are more total smart people around today than before.

[Bhode_Sativa]

agreed, but I don't think that's a good thing in the grand scheme.

[LMNO]

Well, how do you change that proportion, then?

[Triple Zero]

you can't. it's a hardware setting.

[AFK]

Perhaps Human 10.0 will offer an upgrade.