David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his) on Nostr: Some of these 'experiments' lasted hundreds of years. The one we've been involved ...

Some of these 'experiments' lasted hundreds of years. The one we've been involved with since the Neolithic has lasted thousands.

I don't think we disagree about vilifying authoritarian systems of social organization. But yes, we, collectively, have failed to preserve those three freedoms. We once knew better and still we failed. And now we have forgotten. And we have allowed technological development to favor the powerful even more.

And only some of this is in hindsight. Getting out of this, if it is even possible, will require bloodshed because the powerful will not relinquish power voluntarily.

But it is necessary. The climate crisis owes much to a reluctance to alter the status quo. For the wealthy and powerful, it is like asking them to cut off their own hands.

We will not survive unless we rebel. But we have been too well trained not to do so. And so we are doomed.