Great article! Really enjoying the White Pill series. Mark to what extent do you feel that our pursuit of an illusion of safety has brought us away from how our ancestors managed to survive? As you stated, we are well positioned to meet the challenges but very few (I exclude you as sharing your POV is a risk, so thank you!) are willing to take the risk. Furthermore, the comfort of today's advancements have essentially robed many of us of the efficacy that people in the past had to have in order to live. Personally I think it's a fundamental problem to all life, that all living things prefer the "easy" rather than "difficult". Understand I've really simplified it but it hard to deny that many rather go with the flow rather than stand up. We fear death so much but how many of us are actually living to live rather than living to not die?
Thank you kindly for your eloquent and articulate writing style!
Thanks for reading, and please feel free to share my content.
I try to be precise in my terms, so regarding the topic of people wanting to achieve things easily, rather than more difficultly: in general I actually have no problem with that. It’s natural to seek the method that employs the least resource to reach a goal. But I think more to your point, the easier life of modem civilization does make us more dependent. Even there, I’m actually ok. The majority of today’s humans would die in a state of nature (definitely including me). But we’d still rather live in today’s world…it’s better all around. It’s the State that detracts and interferes with humans reaching the best within us.
Also to your point regarding people going with the flow: I am careful not to judge this too harshly. The State puts so many impediments in front of (mostly poor and average) people, they are forced to devote the whole of their life to barely getting by. I can’t find fault if they have less time to examine the big picture.
Thanks again for your great insights, and take care,
Great article! Really enjoying the White Pill series. Mark to what extent do you feel that our pursuit of an illusion of safety has brought us away from how our ancestors managed to survive? As you stated, we are well positioned to meet the challenges but very few (I exclude you as sharing your POV is a risk, so thank you!) are willing to take the risk. Furthermore, the comfort of today's advancements have essentially robed many of us of the efficacy that people in the past had to have in order to live. Personally I think it's a fundamental problem to all life, that all living things prefer the "easy" rather than "difficult". Understand I've really simplified it but it hard to deny that many rather go with the flow rather than stand up. We fear death so much but how many of us are actually living to live rather than living to not die?
Thank you kindly for your eloquent and articulate writing style!
Hi David,
Thanks for reading, and please feel free to share my content.
I try to be precise in my terms, so regarding the topic of people wanting to achieve things easily, rather than more difficultly: in general I actually have no problem with that. It’s natural to seek the method that employs the least resource to reach a goal. But I think more to your point, the easier life of modem civilization does make us more dependent. Even there, I’m actually ok. The majority of today’s humans would die in a state of nature (definitely including me). But we’d still rather live in today’s world…it’s better all around. It’s the State that detracts and interferes with humans reaching the best within us.
Also to your point regarding people going with the flow: I am careful not to judge this too harshly. The State puts so many impediments in front of (mostly poor and average) people, they are forced to devote the whole of their life to barely getting by. I can’t find fault if they have less time to examine the big picture.
Thanks again for your great insights, and take care,
Mark