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Originally Posted by Manomanman  I'm still new to the Worthy Player paradigm (just saw the videos last week), but I'd like to lean on it a bit and see what it can stand up to.
I highly doubt that free and open communication will ever "be the norm". |
Well, frankly, so do I! There way too many people who are comfortable in their self-defeating misery, those who substitute suspicion for intelligence, and select 'Freedom FROM Choice' as their political ideal.
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Originally Posted by Manomanman But let's assume that it does become the norm. (There is some reason to believe that it might have been the norm 30,000+ years ago). |
My take on pre-Agricultural Revolution (pre-historic) societies is that they were general small 'packs' or 'tribes', usually centred around a single dominant male, and his collection of committed females (in a polygynous arrangement) and their collected offspring, primarily females and males without 'alpha' temperament and ambition - those born WITH an 'alpha' ambition being forced to go 'lone wolf' and leave the pack, seeking fertile females from unfamiliar packs.
I doubt there was 'free communication' in any meaningful sense, since persistent language was still a long ways off
But I expect males and females had sex without particular concern for the outcome! (TRULY living 'in the now'
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Originally Posted by Manomanman "The powers that be" would STRONGLY oppose a return to feudalism. The only way we would get to the eat/drink/boink/open communication Utopia would be technological advancement. |
Perhaps.... The only thing which keeps people 'in line', so to speak, is
fear - and that fear is promulgated through the endless re-assurance that there is a severe and chronic '
scarcity' of vital resources.
"Painful to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave!" -
Blade Runner, 1982
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Originally Posted by Manomanman I don't believe we will ever escape our current industrial nightmare until we have intelligent machines doing the manual labor. We have to enslave somebody to keep the global industrial machine pumping out cellphones and toys and garbage. Until robots are doing the work, we'll enslave people to do it. |
The term
robot is derived from the Czech/Russian word for slave, in case you were unaware.
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Originally Posted by Manomanman So until then, I feel like we're left with a empty philosophical conundrum - we're "trapped" in a world where most people are enslaved culturally. Somehow, a few of us escape the mass indoctrination and emotionally emancipate ourselves. We become freelancing consultants, rock stars, internet entrepreneurs, etc. We have guilt-free sex with 1000's of partners. We can lead a truly fulfilling life based solely on our intellectual capacity. |
Yes, we can!
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Originally Posted by Manomanman I've stuggled with how I feel about "those who don't want to help themselves" as you describe them. A Lightworker might try to "help them help themselves". I say **** 'em. And do your part to enslave them. If they're willing to throw their time (=money) away, far be it from me to stop them. |
We're in agreement here. I never inflict my help on anyone - it must be requested explicitly, by one whom I believe will appreciate it, and apply it.
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Originally Posted by Manomanman That's what being a Darkworker means to me - taking advantage of the confused masses, giving them what they want rather than what they need. |
Your call
I don't worry about labels, since I am unconcerned with how others view me, outside of the very few who have demonstrated that they are qualified (by my standards) to have a valuable opinion.
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Originally Posted by Manomanman If you truly are altruistic, then how do you approach the people who don't want to be helped? What is your attitude toward them? |
Perhaps you missed the part in the OP where I outright denied the existence of "altruism"?
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