From what I can gather from a quick Google search—basically. I aim to be less radical about solving it than Ted Kaczynski though.
But even if I can’t fix it, a first step is communicating the problem. Public opinion does not understand it. They think that Google is bad, they don’t know that everything at the size of Google is bad. That having more, but smaller entities is the only way to go.
Ideally, I’d just save myself and those that I care about, but this world loves to punish people who are out of alignment with it. It’s also difficult to convince those that I care about that they’ve grown up in a garbage world with garbage ideas, and that something 100 times better is trivial if they throw this garbage away. It’s like the Buddha saying “Don’t want to suffer? Then just turn off the suffering bro”, but even more extreme. And the only people who know what has gotten worse over time are those who remember what was better, as it’s difficult to put the change of the world into words. In the future, maybe people won’t be able to conceptualize ownership “You mean like, my subscription never expires?”
Counter-movements are lacking, and the few I’ve seen seeks to replace garbage with other garbage, or to attempt to balance out the garbage by applying garbage in the opposite direction. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice that people realize that Tiktok is bad for you, that Politics is exhausting, or that nature is more relaxing than the city, but it’s not nearly enough. And the counter-movement is much slower than the trend towards further problems.
From what I can gather from a quick Google search—basically. I aim to be less radical about solving it than Ted Kaczynski though.
But even if I can’t fix it, a first step is communicating the problem. Public opinion does not understand it. They think that Google is bad, they don’t know that everything at the size of Google is bad. That having more, but smaller entities is the only way to go.
Ideally, I’d just save myself and those that I care about, but this world loves to punish people who are out of alignment with it. It’s also difficult to convince those that I care about that they’ve grown up in a garbage world with garbage ideas, and that something 100 times better is trivial if they throw this garbage away. It’s like the Buddha saying “Don’t want to suffer? Then just turn off the suffering bro”, but even more extreme. And the only people who know what has gotten worse over time are those who remember what was better, as it’s difficult to put the change of the world into words. In the future, maybe people won’t be able to conceptualize ownership “You mean like, my subscription never expires?”
Counter-movements are lacking, and the few I’ve seen seeks to replace garbage with other garbage, or to attempt to balance out the garbage by applying garbage in the opposite direction. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice that people realize that Tiktok is bad for you, that Politics is exhausting, or that nature is more relaxing than the city, but it’s not nearly enough. And the counter-movement is much slower than the trend towards further problems.