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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

This idiotic idea that politics are separate from everything is what is killing the planet.

Many anti ai people are too zealous, for sure, but taking a stance is important, especially against a technology thats been handled as harmful as it. This childish, fantasy apoliticality is an invention, propaganda to let people ignore bad policies from the powerful and wealthy. We should all be political, all the time, inaction and disinterest leads to the death of all things

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    [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Hey, dont mention it, I totally get it. This society primes us for the reaction you had, we are constantly ready for a fight, and it is not your fault, it is our conditioning. Finding the way to dispel that curse is the way we get to people's hearts.

    Just a side not, I absolutely do not think that radicalism is always stupid, or stupid at all. "Deep roots are not reached by frost", we need conviction and strong ideals, and to further clarify, I do think that veganism is the end goal for a truly advanced society and a healed world and people.

    The point is just that to communicate radical ideas we do not need to be in constant anger. Most people respond well when you engage with them and their differences with curiosity, asking questions instead of directly challenging their ways right away. Our communication must be like water, seeking the path of least resistance, yes, but always ending at the sea or a lake. People already know (in some level) that their lifestyles are wrong. That isnt the Epiphany. The epiphany is helping them build up the idea that it is not to late, that they are not irredeemable, and that change is possible.

    People do not want to feel irredeemable and as you said, when talking to Normies abt veganism ppl get defensive. It is largely the fault of propaganda, but more critically, it's the shame angle that always, always fails. Responsibility is a different concept, and it melds better in the mind

    The only way to change is with grace, compassion, and when needed, severity and discipline, distributed sparingly.

    You have to imagine current human society as a collective made of children, fragile, sensitive, impulsive. They will mirror what they perceive, despite your intentions

    I hope this helps, and thank you for reading my comment and being graceful

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    i wanted to ask for help, but instead I came out with this. (feddit.it)
     

    I just blurted this out, no editing, no pauses. I just wrote. I was feeling so bad these days and so doubtful and I don't know who I am but I just felt the need to post this somewhere that would be seen

    A boy was pondering his orb and in the orb he could see all and all could see him. He could travel the stars or roam the lands, navigate the seas and burrow in the earth; in all those places he found many little figures, an ant or a bird or a man. All of them had a thought and all of them spoke. Some of them weren't even real, just a mirage from a mirror that stole the light from what was reflected, and yet even those would speak to the boy. And the boy listened and listened and listened more, and his head would grow larger larger yet larger but could not ever explode.

    For you see, the boy's head was hard as steel, and he wanted nothing more to crack it open, and see what was inside.

    The pressure kept building, his temples throbbing with pain. It was a grotesque sight, a blasphemous pregnancy, and yet he ate and saw and heard and touched and smelled everything he could from his little glass orb. The orb was a mirror too, and while it fed the boy the visions, it robbed him of his soul.

    But that soul was infinite, and was about to erupt.

    The orb fell, the boy too. The head cracked.

    Among the debris of sloppy visions a flower rose, it blossomed, and grew. The most radiant girl came out, and the orb tried to charm her too, but she was just born, and sought the sun. She walked out, seeking her light and the orb, was no more.

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