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“THE BETTER WORLD” Problem

What do you think when you think of “THE BETTER WORLD”?

Politics?

Technology?

You having more MONEY?

Everyone being happier?

Peak human achievement?

FAIRNESS?

 

Why I’m asking?

Because actually, we don’t think the same things, when we think “THE BETTER WORLD”

 

Many people unironically think the world is horrible, the world is burning. That there is VERY LITTLE HOPE

 

Then many people unironically think that the world will get better IF THE SAVE IT, and that they’ll do by sharing their insightful POLITICAL OPINION on Twitter or at a family table, and electing their favourite political leader, whose the “only hope”

 

Then some observe that TECHNOLOGY is what brought the most people out of poverty, extended duration and quality of life

 

Then some think that the “BETTER WORLD” has LITTLE to do with “the world” — and EVERYTHING to do with YOU AND I, and how we treat each others

 

Who is right?

Everyone and no one

ALL of those matter

To not be cognisant of ALL of them — is to be ignorant, is to NOT REALLY understand this “better world” problem

Because ALL of those problems are real

 

Of course what typically happens we pick ONE of those, or maybe two at best,

And that fills the hole in us,

To answer the “betterment of humanity” problem,

Often to answer the “meaning” problem, or at least to complete it, beyond whatever insignificant bullshit is going on in your life already

To answer MORALITY problem, to convince us that we’re good and moral and valuable human beings, and maybe even worth living (and yet we still die)

 

And of course, in picking ONLY one of them, and losing sight of the other ingredients — you lose sight of the reality of “better world”

Sometimes you still manage to contribute

And sometimes you hinder things, or even set them back

 

Furthermore,

Once you DO CHOOSE to care about something,

You’re also committing to be AFFECTED by it, emotionally

Which is yet another key determinant of WHAT you consider “betterment of the world”

Perhaps you care about money and business. There’s a chance that this will colour what you believe is better for the world

Perhaps you care about your friends, and your friends think they care about the planet, think this is the crux of the “better world” problem.

Perhaps you’re used to power, and power you attained with your merit, and perhaps you’re used to seeing POWER as merit, and perhaps you want more power, “power to make a change”,

Perhaps you have had experience transforming your life with will and determination — and you view the WORLD as one in need of such WILFUL TRANSFORMATION

AND perhaps you’re used to world POSITIVELY surprising you, positive changes happening in the world — and THIS is what made you care, made you await the further positive changes with anticipation, and perhaps this also makes you DISAPPOINTED when the world no longer surprises you so positively, perhaps even surprises you negatively

 

See?

The fact that “BETTER WORLD” is such a COMPLEX, multidimensional problem,

the fact that it’s open to INTERPRETATION,

and finally the fact that you are more likely to inform your VIEWS by your own EXPERIENCES and EMOTIONS,

is what results in most of us being very CONFUSED as to WHAT IS THE BETTER WORLD, and unable to AGREE on much common ground

 

What I have always been recommending was to place the most WEIGHT on that which you DO IMPACT yourself

And view THAT as the foundation of the “better world”

And I still hold by it.

Society is a collection of individuals

 

Furthermore your individual impact can be the most REAL, the most MEASURABLE and CONCRETE,

I’m referring to that which you DO EVERY DAY

What you “once did” and world rewarded you for it — all that is but a single chance occurrence, of now debatable value

But that which you WILLED TODAY — and then brought FORTH, with your own hands — is REAL

 

AND as we expand our purview,

Beyond ourselves, toward our family,

our social circle,

our local society,

our state, our nation,

our political sphere,

our world

it must be understood that our ability to DETERMINE what is true with certainty, it progressively decreases,

our ability to EXPLAIN, UNDERSTAND, it progressively decreases,

our IMPACT likewise decreases, no matter how much we like to pretend to have impact. Just because everyone knows your face — doesn’t mean you actually impacted their reality in the slightest.

 

And thus as our degree of influence decreases,

So should our attachment

 

And again I will mention: when you’re really busy LIVING AMAZING LIFE and making it BETTER for yourself and those around you — there’s really little time and energy to OVEREXCITE yourself with what some CUNT in a suit have said

But when your life have grown stale and predictable and unexciting — suddenly you think the world matters so much, and it matters so much if it’s red or blue, individual or collective, this or that

 

This is not to say that some people genuinely can’t have their greatest IMPACT at the higher levels of hierarchy, at the greater scale

Although ironically their situation presents even more incentive to peek their head OUT of their actual purview, and pretend they are even bigger and more impactful than they actually are

 

Indeed,

The more attachment you place to something you don’t control, something that’s beyond you and your actual life — the more DELUDED you become, and INSUFFERABLE too. And miserable

I say “attachment”

For you CAN be profoundly informed and opinionated on abstract matters that you don’t personally impact

And INDEED, ironically, typically the degree of attachment does not correlate well with degree of insight.

It may correlate with the amount of bullshit you can spawn on the subject. But it of course doesn’t correlate with clarity,

Not unlike historically our fear of death wasn’t the best context to then consider if god exists and will give us eternal life

 

And indeed, some people see it,

See political brain-rot

Or ideological brainwashing,

Or even remember themselves having for some time been a little bit overexcited by some ultimately trifling matter,

And they want no piece of that

Which hopefully refocuses them on what truly matters: that which they can truly do, and do better, and improve

 

And finally, I shall repeat, the emotion plays the role then too,

You might have trained yourself to ignore DRAMA of the world and undue stress it causes,

Ignore the “better world”, or “worse world” problem,

Focus on your own “better world”,

But when the world IS INDEED doing very well, in your view,

This is a temptation to be dragged back in,

To enjoy the world WINNING, enjoy the good news,

Except,

Then the world disappoints again

But now you have became attached again

So now you’re back to square one: MISERABLE because of something you don’t even control, and don’t even know if it ACTUALLY matters at all

 

Let’s remind ourselves again:

Your ATTACHMENT should decrease the more REMOVED it is from your influence

This includes your perceived influence (e.g. your BS on social media, or your dumb interview) — which in reality could be utterly insignificant, 5 minutes of fame, 5 minutes of noise coming out of your cunt mouth

The “GREAT NEWS” should also be received stoicly — lest you develop an attachment, a dependency

Tech breakthrough? GREAT. Now let’s wait until it actually lands in your hands

A promising political development? GREAT. Let’s CELEBRATE… but 10 years from now, when it came to bear fruit.

Etc.

And in general, in all aspects of your life, you’re likely way too attached

The best tip is to just shut the fuck up. Stop thinking so much, judging so much, having so many opinions, and thinking your so serious.

Go have some fun. REAL fun, not fake fun. Entertainment is for losers

Then go pick single thing in your life you want to IMPROVE — and go improve it.

Then see if you’re so excited about what mr president has said

 

OH and one last time,

Doesn’t mean you can’t be informed

Although for most of you — probably you really shouldn’t.

Probably you really shouldn’t have a clue about stuff that has little impact on you — BEFORE you are an expert on that which MATTERS in your life

But you can choose to be informed

But it must come with least attachment

And NEWS should not be consumed at all, basically, UNLESS they impact you right here right now,

Read “news” once a month, a nice digest of what ACTUALLY HAPPENED, and what actual consequences were

 

Oh and I said “probably”, “probably shouldn’t”,

And that you should focus there where you have the highest impact,

But before you accuse me of escapism — let me repeat:

Perhaps you’re the one destined to work at greater scale, or at higher rungs of the hierarchy,

Or even, perhaps, right now your modest voice, modest action, modest initiative as JUST ONE OF THE MANY — perhaps just this time this is the “highest impact thing” that you can do

But perhaps not

And perhaps it STILL doesn’t warrant attachment

 

Oh and also: MAKE PREDICTIONS

Opinions are just noise.

Make predictions. Write them down. Check them over time

If they aren’t accurate — then perhaps you’re not made for it

Which means you showing interest in those matters is utterly pointless. It’s like reading a book in Chinese, without knowing Chinese. You’re getting less than 1% of substance, you’re just admiring the weird signs, with 0 comprehension

 

Oh and one last bad news,

YES, the world can totally GET WORSE

OR far better

I’m bringing attention to it to pre-bunk the notion that the reason we should CARE LESS about that which we barely impact — is that the world is INEVITABLY BECOMING BETTER

It’s probably not

We REGRESSED as civilisation MANY-A-TIMES

And guess what — it still changes nothing

When your house burns and you can’t do shit about it — it’s time to relax

And even if you try to put out fire — it’s still time to relax. You may get lucky, but most likely you won’t. ACCEPT the outcome. Let the chips fall where they may

 

Finally,

Most of us confuse CARE and DILIGENCE and genuine desire to DO THINGS WELL and do GOOD THINGS…

…with excitation, emotionality, DRAMA, handwaving, seriousness, and ANTAGONISM

It’s again: because most of us know little about true improvement, true betterment of anything

The PROFESSIONAL executes calmly and efficiently

He doesn’t wave his hands, he doesn’t shout, and there’s no explosions in the background

He is intense — but it’s the intensity of focus — not intensity of chaos

Don’t confuse emotionality and attachment and drama — with morality and progress

This is YET another reason why you should just chill the fuck out — and go do something useful in your actual life. Fuck your politics

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