People are afraid of disrupting the known because they're afraid of the unknown. If we're able to accept that ultimately life is out of our control, it becomes easier to realize what is in our control. You can fight fear with knowledge and it is possible to know things, even in this majorly confusing world.

What comes after is what we should be building now. By uprooting the past we automatically put steps down on another path. That's why I hate the neutral perspective, because it's uprooting the tree and leaving the holes empty. It's time to start filling it with dirt and planting seeds-- create the everyday interactions we want to have and start progress on the big ideas of the next society, the society we really want to live in.

This is a controversial opinion, but I believe charity is a solution worth building. I want to build real life cornucopias with resources in abundance and everybody can take what they want.*** What I've heard and learned about life in a 21st century First World country is that technically speaking, we have the means to feed everybody in the world. There exists housing units for every homeless person and clothes for every naked person and lots more medicine for sick people. Capitalism is the reason why so many have so few. Artificial scarcity is only the beginning of the fake shit that's been created: democracy, service, community... we don't practice real version of those either. 

My desire for charity is not without doubts. My biggest is that the money being repurposed is still not free from the imperial violence that created said wealth. For example, even if we pour money and labor into rebuilding Gaza, does the money coming from Elon Musk taint the good done with it? Is money the resource people need to give? Or is there something else that doesn’t feel like the tool of the master that we can use to physically build the world we want to live in? 

My focus right now is on creation and consolidation of power. I don't think power and control are inherently bad... I think people have used it badly for millennia though. Power is just powerful! Moves made with it are deep so if you move negatively or selfishly, it cuts a lot of fucking people. I think it could be equally, massively good. I truly believe that good power exists, and I believe we need to make more of it because there is a fuckton of bad power. Part of gaining good power is transforming the bad but pure good power is something that can be created too.

Big picture-- truly changing the world-- we need to create new ways of economic exchange and science practices and education and resource management and political communication and schools of thought. We need to totally reinvent the game because the one that we're playing is always going to feature war. It's a star fucking player. From the very very very beginning Western society was built to destroy the world.

My education was able to give me the hits of Western society: philosophy, science, culture, art, and supposedly the best of all of them. It depresses me. This shouldn’t be excellence, because ​the only thing excellent about it was its ability to be troublesome for my learning. At a school so egocentric, the worst experience is the true measure of its educational capability. I wish Columbia University wasn’t as influential as it is but for 270 years it has successfully put itself in the spotlight as a beacon of Western thought and producers of exemplary humanity. But this excellence is artificial. Getting a supreme Western education like attending Columbia is supposed to be a pipeline to excellence. It’s one they’ve hijacked though, to direct the flow of intellect and potential towards themselves and starve the rest while claiming the rest naturally have less.

It’s artificial excellence— manufactured, appropriated, stolen, taken, exaggerated. It looks so real to us because we’re at a point in time where all the generations that exist are people completely of the West. Even though we have knowledge of colonial ancestors our society, with the multiple technological revolutions and rapid ages of invention, has unique aspects distinct to the West. So we think no humanity could’ve done this before because they haven’t, which makes the West better than the rest. The truth is, progress would’ve always happened because time doesn’t stop. Revolution and change is inevitable. What was completely avoidable was the damage humanity did while the times changed.

So the perceived excellence of the West is a shiny illusion. What happened in excess was violence and for a long time it outwardly praised itself for its savagery. I’ll speak for modern American history, that the 60s and 70s was a period of great social change where people finally had to reckon with the lies of civility they told themselves. Within America the definition of a human being genuinely expanded. I think there’s a time like that coming again, because the destruction in the world is so enormous and humanity’s rage is roiling. Real human being, love and acceptance, positive collaboration is where we’re going. It’s certainly where I plan on going.