I already was knocked out by the new one. I left this comment:
"I'm just discovering you. It's love. Ayahuasca makes for drama, but for procedure I'd suggest ecstasy. Its original name was empathy, as it would be even surer to turn empathy-lacking fools into love bunnies.
Major thank you for everything. Just brilliant! And ain't it a small world! I just got an email from Paul Nugent: "The game-changer AI videos were created by Ari Kushnir who came to your house a few years ago." Did you know that? Do you remember what hi-jinx we were up to at the time?
Thanks for your ongoing efforts Suzanne! I like to think that we are largely on the same page regarding the destination, though may have different routes to get there.
Having evolved to be social entities, I continued to suspect that we are predisposed to live in harmony with others and the planet — were something not getting in the way. I believe that "something" is our current social model of individualism, competition, and relentless acquisition (largely economic).
Whether by design or merely an unfortunate consequence of our particular economics, we are never allowed to be fully secure and at rest. The “good life” for most of us is always just out-of-reach — and actually seems to be receding for all but the 1%. This, accompanied by the fear that others may be getting “ahead” of us — and in a way that will dim our own future prospects. In result, rather than regarding others as companions on a collective enterprise, we tend to be closed off, wary, and mistrustful of others — or even resentful. (Note how much of our media - both factual and fictional - centers around highlighting the misfortunes of others for its entertainment value.) Thus we stay divided and conquered.
I would like to see our community of thinkers start planning for and crafting a fundamental new social model — less “every man for himself” and more about recognizing that “we all do better when we all do better”.
Yes to being headed for harmony, as a human family. But no guarantee we'll last long enough to get there. In the two steps forward one step back path of progress, it was a big-time misstep not to deal with the Rachel Carson message. Heads in the sand…where they still are, as it gets ever more urgent to get everyone’s attention.
There is thinking about new models, but what there isn’t thinking about is how to get humanity in the mindset to cooperate. How to change humanity’s mind is top of my list. What’s top of yours re our different routes to get ahead.
You are both brilliant and on the mark. It’s well written and easy and so challenging for thinking people. We get it now what will we do? As we all recover we are waking up to the new ever-changing ever-exhausting reality. Onward.
Hi Sue! Thanks for featuring my AI experiments on Trump and Elon! Those are from last August and I’ve made a few more since then. Most recently this one Love Force One https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJpN9MmxEbX/?igsh=Yjd5ZTNpaW1tNHE=
I already was knocked out by the new one. I left this comment:
"I'm just discovering you. It's love. Ayahuasca makes for drama, but for procedure I'd suggest ecstasy. Its original name was empathy, as it would be even surer to turn empathy-lacking fools into love bunnies.
Major thank you for everything. Just brilliant! And ain't it a small world! I just got an email from Paul Nugent: "The game-changer AI videos were created by Ari Kushnir who came to your house a few years ago." Did you know that? Do you remember what hi-jinx we were up to at the time?
Thanks for your ongoing efforts Suzanne! I like to think that we are largely on the same page regarding the destination, though may have different routes to get there.
Having evolved to be social entities, I continued to suspect that we are predisposed to live in harmony with others and the planet — were something not getting in the way. I believe that "something" is our current social model of individualism, competition, and relentless acquisition (largely economic).
Whether by design or merely an unfortunate consequence of our particular economics, we are never allowed to be fully secure and at rest. The “good life” for most of us is always just out-of-reach — and actually seems to be receding for all but the 1%. This, accompanied by the fear that others may be getting “ahead” of us — and in a way that will dim our own future prospects. In result, rather than regarding others as companions on a collective enterprise, we tend to be closed off, wary, and mistrustful of others — or even resentful. (Note how much of our media - both factual and fictional - centers around highlighting the misfortunes of others for its entertainment value.) Thus we stay divided and conquered.
I would like to see our community of thinkers start planning for and crafting a fundamental new social model — less “every man for himself” and more about recognizing that “we all do better when we all do better”.
Did you see The Peter Russell talk that cogently explains how the natural course of capitalism got us where we are? It's in this post: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/getting-us-out-of-the-mess-we-are.
Yes to being headed for harmony, as a human family. But no guarantee we'll last long enough to get there. In the two steps forward one step back path of progress, it was a big-time misstep not to deal with the Rachel Carson message. Heads in the sand…where they still are, as it gets ever more urgent to get everyone’s attention.
There is thinking about new models, but what there isn’t thinking about is how to get humanity in the mindset to cooperate. How to change humanity’s mind is top of my list. What’s top of yours re our different routes to get ahead.
You are both brilliant and on the mark. It’s well written and easy and so challenging for thinking people. We get it now what will we do? As we all recover we are waking up to the new ever-changing ever-exhausting reality. Onward.
"ever-exhausting reality" -- That's the kind of good writing Mark McInterey does! What to do is share this widely!!!!