Hello, MAGA.. rethink your anger and hate
April 15th, 2025You’re being blinded by the news, by the mesage you’re being sold. In fact you are richer than a midevil king. You have access to *insane* amounts of resources. For a pittance a month you can have access to most of the music catalog of humanity. For *free*, you can check out more fiction and nonfiction from the library than *existed* in 1800. The Wikipedia and other similar resources offer almost unlimited access to collective knowledge. Youtube offers more video that you can imagine, and the ability to broadcast yourself. You can send a packet to anywhere on earth, almost, in a few milliseconds. You have access to a huge variety of food, both prepared and raw ingredients and even seeds.
Are you as rich as you could be if we had a perfectly designed resource allcoation system? No. But NONE of the politicans are talking about redesigning our resource allocation system. They talk about the three major families of systems that exist as if those are all there is, and they talk about capitalism as if it is the best by far and to be adhered to religiously. But we have not even begun to grok what a truly advanced resource allocation system might look like. Money is *pathetically* bad.. it repeatedly encourages us to destroy real value to make paper dollars – it throws away enormous amounts of metadata with every transaction. We can do so much better if we try.
Also, you are alive in one of the most exciting times to be alive in. We might for the first time see something smarter than a human on earth. We might also see fusion tapped for energy – and once you have energy aplenty, it’s a very low bar to talk about feeding and housing everyone. There is the real possibility of a much better world.. or a much worse one. The people selling you hate, the people encouraging you to feed the wrong wolf, the people selling the idea that being empathic is “the woke mind virus” and needs destroyed.. the people who are upset by transgenedered people have not even begun to use their imaginations. It’s likely that in the near future, if we can develop neurological software or man-computer interfaces, we can not only change your experiential gender at will, we can let you wear the body of a cat, dog, or dolphin in terms of your conscious experience.
So don’t let our leaders sell you the idea that you are downtrodden. Are there problems? You bet there are, but Donald Trump isn’t even talking about them because he has no idea how to solve the real problems in front of us. What he’s done is make up a bunch of problems, and also encourage a bunch of destructive behaviors that will make us all far less wealthy.