Our species has spun its collective wheels for millenia because people broadly think someone or something is in charge. Thinking people believe there’s some kind of objective good, a rule-of-law. Non-thinking people think there’s a ruling power, a human system of hierarchy that all beings must submit to. The purely reactionary, emotionally-leashed bottom of the barrel believe in supernatural forces like God or Lizard People pulling strings from the shadows.
I sometimes wonder how much progress we could make as a species if we all just suddenly woke up with the deep and unshakable knowledge that nobody is coming.
Would we take care of things better? Would we collectively work to build that ruling power or would human minds break at the very notion of real agency and just rip each others’ throats out?
Liberals be like “But what about the law??”
Our species has spun its collective wheels for millenia because people broadly think someone or something is in charge. Thinking people believe there’s some kind of objective good, a rule-of-law. Non-thinking people think there’s a ruling power, a human system of hierarchy that all beings must submit to. The purely reactionary, emotionally-leashed bottom of the barrel believe in supernatural forces like God or Lizard People pulling strings from the shadows.
I sometimes wonder how much progress we could make as a species if we all just suddenly woke up with the deep and unshakable knowledge that nobody is coming.
Would we take care of things better? Would we collectively work to build that ruling power or would human minds break at the very notion of real agency and just rip each others’ throats out?