Nobody controls that narrative, it's the machine of civilization that controls the narrative. Wake up, folks!
But why is civilization a machine when it's made up of people? To scale up a civilization you need humans to organize and act like a machine.
Thus the koolaid that we've all been drinking since birth is one that we are but a cog in the great machinery of civilization.
But how do we keep the conveniences of civilization without destroying it? We can by realizing that the hierarchical organization that we invented to scale civilization is no longer necessary with current technology.
Scalable decentralized technologies lead to a civilization that is aligned to human needs. Specifically, one that values empathy, conscience, self-control, respect, kindness, tolerance, and fairness.
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It occurred to me the @BretWeinstein is crafting his concern about the covid19 vaccines in a way to appeal to a specific crowd and avoiding the more likely dangerous scenario. This is why his message is biased and self-serving. Let me explain.
Weinstein argues that there is a concern that vaccines being imperfect (as they always are) will give the virus an opportunity for a breakthrough that can lead to an arms race. Oddly enough, he doesn't apply the same logic for cures like the unsubstantiated one he promotes.
However, the obvious danger is that the mRNA virus mutates faster proportionally to the size of the unvaccinated and infected group. We already saw this in India where the most dangerous delta variant emerged from a huge population of unvaccinated.
I'm composing this tweetstorm from a tweetstorm of a dream I had. It begins with the idea that Ptolemy's model of the movement of the planets was extremely accurate.
Ptolemy's model was accurate enough to be very useful for navigators of their time. But it worked well because it was finely tuned to fit with observed experimental data.
But was wrong with Ptolemy's model is that it did not correctly capture cause and effect. The earth and the planets revolve around the sun due to gravity and not everything revolves around the earth. This was the Copernicus model which he paid gravely for proposing.
It occurs to me that modern society has led to the perspective that we have immense control of our lives. This was not always true in the past where people could die for many reasons out of their control.
The modern understanding of the word 'tragedy' is that it when someone suffers for something that they could have avoided entirely. That there exists this means of control one's destiny and that it was ignored.
We see this play out on a mass scale with our actions in the pandemic (facemasks and vaccinations) and our absence of risk mitigation against climate change. But we remain utterly perplexed as to why people can't see the tragedy that is happening in slow motion?
It is a surprise to many that the math used in physics is a weird kind of handwavy math.
"Quantum field theory is mathematics that has not yet been invented by mathematicians." quantamagazine.org/the-mystery-at…
The math in physics is not as rigorous as found in math but it works with extreme accuracy! Maps (i.e. models) are not the territory, but you want your maps to accurately represent the territory.
As Feynman has said "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
It's becoming depressingly obvious that we have to depend on stupid people to do the right thing (see: vaccination and climate change).
We've been under the false assumption that stupid people can be convinced by good arguments and reason. You will have to throw away that assumption forever!
Explain to me why the CDC has masks-wearing guidelines that appeal only to smart people? The damn problem with smart people is that they assume most people are smart enough to understand good reasoning. Wrong!!!