what comes after

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.

***Apparently I might need to clarify that I'm talking about charity and altruism as a philosophy, not the way it functions now as tax breaks and stealing and fake healing. 

Of course, I also anticipate everyone telling me that it's cOmPleTy uNrEaLisTic to think human beings are charitable but I'm gonna say now-- I DON'T CARE! The world I want to live in is one where people are charitable so guess what, I'm gonna try to build it by getting (pressuring) people to be charitable! I believe I will succeed because nobody else will believe I will succeed. And it definitely won't come about if none of us are believing in the idea to begin with. I also believe this type of charity is possible because humans are altruistic. I partly believe that something that makes us distinct from other species is our capacity of altruism and that it's benefitted human growth and civilization. That's why it's so disheartening ethics and selflessness are optional for our government leaders, because one of the most human things we can do is sacrifice for each other.