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We’re too dumb and sabotaging of our intelligence because about 1/5 of humanity is too narcissistic to make it work. They won’t let let others thrive because to hold others back is easier than to strive for constant genuine improvement.
How do you propose to solve for this?
1/5 can only stop the 4/5 if they don't fight back. So many people have been culturally taught to be run over - through distorted ideas of 'respect' 'politeness' 'order' and more.
They won't let us? No. We won't let them. Get up and defy them. In whatever style suits one best. Economic strikes, go off grid, protest with weapons, join a hacker organization, stop paying taxes, boycott the companies you hate... List goes on. Any one thing might feel like nothing, but together it is everything. Online there's so much hopeless content, it is easy to feel like no one else is mobilizing. But they are and they need every single one of us to take action. It's not important that we have the perfect strategy, it's important that we all defy together.
When the 4/5 have to fight back to stop the 1/5, they adopt the traits of the 1/5 over time to defeat them and become the next 1/5 with future generations of them eventually creating the need for them to be stopped. Thus creating a cycle that can only solved by a continuous and systemic non violent deposition of the 1/5.
This extends beyond our era into that of previous revolutions of the cycle where tyrants caused their own fall via arrogance and greed.