CIRCLE WITH A DOT

A key fallacy of human instinct is that the solution is usually "MOAR".

I'm no Buddhist. But I admire the courage of a tradition that questions the very nature of suffering. Western culture decided long ago that it understood suffering, and how to address it. But we have been wrong the whole time. We will not escape our predicament until we admit and address our mistakes.

Our greatest misunderstanding is fear. Our greatest fear is annihilation. Without the cognitive tools to face it, to transcend it, we are kept under its control.

@petealexharris We have been anthropomorphizing computers since day one. The way we anthropomorphize virtually everything. Animism is the original religion. It is virtually wired in. A weird side effect of empathy and mirror neurons? Everything has a soul. Everything has desire and intentions. The more it looks or acts like a person, the more we believe it.

@8r3n7 @sol perhaps the premise of imagination comes from fear is flawed. Why can it not come from desire (for improvement/wish to be) and to this end its results are more inclusive/building rather than blaming?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Aaronvegh/116044646952207828I'm glad people are waking up to the reality of corporations, but damn I wish they would hurry up.Apple fans (including me, for a while) were seduced by a *marketing image*. Jobs and Woz were coopted into that image (Jobs by choice). They were real people, but they were not Apple.Apple, like all its ilk, seeks *moats*: soft and ersatz monopolies. When it cannot get absolute ones. Not out of generosity, but in search of power for insatiable shareholders. A monster from the collective id.The brand is a lie.