>Do you think of Western culture as a blind primate hierarchy?
Honestly? I used to think of it as an edifice of enlightened human thought... HAHAHAHAHA.
>Is not that very perspective part of the problem?
Don't think so. I'm not even sure there is a problem.
>I'm all about actually changing things
Oh, I wish things were different, too. But IMHO all I can possibly ever change are my local circumstances, and even that is not always particularly tractable. Intentionally "changing the world for the better" kinda sounds like a single cell of your body arbitrarily changing the laws of physics under which it operates. (Stretch that metaphor a bit and you get cancerous ideologies. We saw how well that worked...)
The world can evolve, though. Over feedback loops that take generations.
>So perhaps "rebooting" is clumsy language, if you're suggesting that a new boot will simply take its place :) Maybe de-booting is what we're after?
Now that's some pretty cool wordplay - the world needs more of that, so you made a positive change right there :) The Butlerian debooting :D
Honestly? I used to think of it as an edifice of enlightened human thought... HAHAHAHAHA.
>Is not that very perspective part of the problem?
Don't think so. I'm not even sure there is a problem.
>I'm all about actually changing things
Oh, I wish things were different, too. But IMHO all I can possibly ever change are my local circumstances, and even that is not always particularly tractable. Intentionally "changing the world for the better" kinda sounds like a single cell of your body arbitrarily changing the laws of physics under which it operates. (Stretch that metaphor a bit and you get cancerous ideologies. We saw how well that worked...)
The world can evolve, though. Over feedback loops that take generations.
>So perhaps "rebooting" is clumsy language, if you're suggesting that a new boot will simply take its place :) Maybe de-booting is what we're after?
Now that's some pretty cool wordplay - the world needs more of that, so you made a positive change right there :) The Butlerian debooting :D