HeyJaredEarthkin
Explorations on building community, conspiracism and the far right, human psychology and emotions, and grounded spirituality - all with the goal of figuring out how to do Human in better way.
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The Most Dangerous Idea of them All (opens the original)
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I’m watching the 2nd season of Picard and it took a crazy twist. I won’t give spoilers, but it brings the concept of human superiority front and center in a very dramatic way.And yet, for all its drama, it is simply expressing the same old underlying belief that humans have taken for granted as the core of our worldview for thousands of years now.This is the belief that humans are the highest life form on earth, and that we are therefore entitled to own and control the land and all other forms o
Ignorance Makes Us All Dumber (opens the original)
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I had a good conversation with a friend today, and I realized something. There’s always been a strong anti-intellectual bias in the US, particularly outside of urban areas. It goes back to when intellectuals were seen as arrogant and snobby, Yankees with their noses in the air. (I honestly think it goes back to the civil war, when the rural south was defeated by the urban north).Case in point: my grandpa grew up in a farm in Pennsylvania, and he was written out of his parents’ will when he decid
The Choice (opens the original)
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At this point in history, there are two sides. Not because we are so different, or even because we fundamentally want different things - because we aren’t, and we don’t.But there are two distinct ways of thinking that I’m seeing, two very different set of values and approaches to the problems that we all collectively face. And in many ways they are the opposite of each other. Consider these questions:Is your primary concern solely for yourself, or for everyone collectively? During the pandemic,
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