Fuse … your post is such an inspiration … like a breath of fresh … clean … air. A rare enough incident these days … both figuratively and literally!
Let me start with your last comment:
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Agreed … and this post is my first baby step beyond hope.
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We both joined ILP in 2006 … you joined about 6 months earlier than me. Since 2006, I’ve popped in and out of ILP … always found it to be a hostile arena … always left more vexed than when I entered.
For me, there are only two possible answers:
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The hostility is by design … attract some serious thinkers and proceed to squash them like a cockroach that has entered one’s personal space.
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An open … liberal … no holds barred … project with virtually no attempt to steer … control … manipulate … simply let the forum go wherever it goes.
I prefer to believe the latter. If right … ILP has become a microcosm of humanity … the mix is likely about right … the proportion of vexatious bullhorns about right and so on. A wonderful circumstance … with this as a backdrop and with conscious effort … we may figure out where humanity is headed.
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I prefer to believe your first alternative … [b]
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Why?
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Information overload from exploding technologies for the past 70 years. Our brains are inundated with information … overwhelming our ability to integrate … synthesize all this shit into a coherent whole.
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The natural inclination to believe that we are doing the “right thing” … we are living the “right way”. No one wants to believe they have been deceived.
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We are in fact living the “right way” for reasons we don’t know or understand. Our life choices have brought humanity to where it is today … we are not yet on our knees … we may well be on the threshold of a very positive transformation … metamorphosis. Does the caterpillar know that it is on route to become a butterfly?
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The “desperation” … the “feeling of being trapped” will disappear when the clouds are rolled back and the light shines through … figuratively speaking.
Enough for a baby step.