Society is exploding in terms of complexity, chaoticness, and fraud.

Complexity causes chaoticness and fraud to increase.

Chaoticness causes complexity and fraud to increase.

Fraud causes complexity and chaoticness to increase. >

> In the past, our problems were isolatable and external. We want to conquor distance, so we build highways. We want to conquer disease, so we invent vaccines. We want to conquer an enemy tribe, so we kill them. >

> Now we are our problems, and like a Hydra with millions of heads, we bite ourselves because our problems are no longer seperable from ourselves.

This has occurred throughout history, but never to this degree. >

> To solve this meta-problem, we must cease to see ourselves as helpless, and instead see ourselves as demigods, and we must view that primarily as a burden. >

> We must raise a generation of sincerely virtuous heroes who can trust each other, and to do that, we must somehow cultivate radical honesty. >

> we raise children in schools, where no one understands why they're there and cheating is normalized. At the very time we need godlike virtue, we teach the next generation to be apathetic, to worm their way through bureaucracies by any means necessary in order to survive. >

> The change we need seems almost impossible, like it would require every single person to, all at once, rise up and say the right thing, for no reason other than because we know we'll ALL suffer together if we don't.

This thread is my current mood. https://twitter.com/TauTeFox/status/1228489407885242369