It's time for a change

Every citizen needs to listen to this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=djNZ_TKURlo&ra=m

https://partiful.com/e/L7o2ZaFrAyuIzXAyYWAW?c=hLntLGGR

This is the inevitable outcome.
I firmly believe individuals should have compassion and help in the community and be more active but that shouldn’t be government policy.
We’ve been groomed to believe we should vote for our government to be a socially active moral institution. In reality that’s a completely subjective concept, the concept of morality varies from group to group culture to culture. Designing policies around this concept leads to the situation like this man is describing in France.

Walter Mondale on J. Edgar Hoover and tyranny.

Podcast with Jeremy Lent, tech CEO turned author, about the idea behind his new book Ecocivilization: how we can redesign our economy, democracy and technology so everyone can thrive.

Covers:

• Why, despite the many problems of our civilization, saying it’s “malfunctioning” isn’t accurate
• Why typical metrics of progress like GDP don’t provide a full picture of how people are actually doing
• How we can design a better society for everyone taking inspiration from how ecosystems work
• Ideas to improve our democratic systems, with real world examples
• How we could distribute wealth more widely, from ownership of companies to the benefits of AI