The social experiments are valuable. Who would say that smokers in pub-sitting nations of Ireland [1st ban in EU] or Czechia [last ban in EU] would recognise their preshaming of the smoking ban as silly, mostly approving of it now. [Czechia's pre-ban discussion would somehow dismiss other EU states' experience from after this 'restriction of personal freedoms'.]
Portugal showed that the cutting of supply of drugs which cuts the indignation and despair promotion [media fuel] was important. Sudhir Venkatesh studied gangs who live on drugs supply and found the culture with few hope. Even the bosses are not on average surviving 30. Yet somehow this shared despair finds its sustained culture. Pain culture. Is the war on drugs working? No, it just helps the gangs and the cops' bosses. The solution that dissolves gangs [helping their members yet primarily their customers] is to give drugs to the sick=needy like in Portugal. 2 decades ago scientists were ask to help Lisboa. Science said supply was important. If nobody wants the overpriced illegal drug, there is no gang, the supply of criminals withers away. For half the money saved on repression, the sick are treated and returned to society that so learns not to stigmatise. Success. I applaud Portugal. Likewise with the Scandinavian inmates, it is cheaper to help them than let the pain culture spoil them. Society then learns to let and not stigmatise them since after release they are improved, the know a trade and dignity. Something that most of EU prisons [nor elsewhere] never supply. I applaud pragmatic social penal practices. Likewise with migration. Pain supply matters. Criminals offer know-how creating a media bubble of hope abroad. By promoting local hopelessness, they encourage migration. Now an experiment is underway where Bagdad -Minsk corridore is open side stepping the smuggling mafia. Indignation rousing media (another pain niche) found out it is the Minsk dictator's reply to the sanctions. Bravo and thanks for the experiment. If it lasts, it will collapse the criminal supply of hope [false luck examples] abroad bubble. Emigration is about unknown, hope and future i.e. process of hearsay. Migration without this supply nudge might then stop on its own, especially if EU promotes pockets of hope [fake it to make it lies?} of luck examples in tradespeople of Iraq.. Scientists will find that for half the cost of repression and subsidies, Iraq can be helped to sustain its local hope, its future. I applaud Belarus, we need experiments. Does Sudhir break internet?
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'I was thinking of translating ted.captionhub.com/projects/d96777af2d talk by Clover Hogan . (Is she Paul's relative?:)
So she says all the leaders took on the responsibility and became leaders. Hm I think she speaks about leaders from 1000 yrs ago. So Clover Hogan asks what story is in the way of our taking on the responsibility. Find it and challenge. Reimagine your hobby and put its new iteration into service of promotion against climate change. If you are overwhelmed with the interconnectedness of the crises, visualise, what it would look like if you focus on a single problem [from all the fucked up environmental complex]. Imagine healing lobotomy to be able to focus on just one tiny facet disregarding the heavy global. You will became a soldier technologist same as the ones who caused this shite, but on the good side. Now trying something else. Hmmm I ponder the borders and states and ownership.. all this is connected to ambition-competition circle which is powered by comparison. Ambition under competition is focused. Not sensitive not kind. It begets jealousy and walls. The blind focus is in the core of the process of modern power, it is a norm of our technological civilisation, fertilised by gods' blessings to be fruitful, spread and populate all the corners. There is almost no state that is not build on this ambition. A habit-pattern that all men breathe like fish breathe water. It leads to exploitation (smearing environment with externalities and little regard). China buys mines and woods pretending local can survive. Bitcoin rises and the ambitious revere and follow. I reckon that the majority of modern leaders took up the challenge of having silver spoon. Tough stuff. Nepotism is a norm, it is a tradition, an instinct of liking fluffy puppy, not a lizard. In most of societies there is no shame nor guilt connected to nepotism: only if gone wrong like when the nephew refuses the post or embezzles too much... Today's society is in its global form too sick [GDP growth religion], too sinful, too consuming, addicted to signaling in media. Veneration of grabbing, competition and the now. TED = Plague trying to uproot itself just to postpone the doom and exploit the future even more thoroughly. The leaders we have are the mirror of the addicted majority [in democracy or not] - locust. 'Eat Now more TV now. More locust now. Locust are holy esp in market support mode. Can there be an ambition for a] fighting the populating or b] having the clairvoyant sensitivity open? Who would like to fight population must hurry up before the droughts and viruses take all the credit. Who would struggle to reach the 3rd eye may not probably go far either. Despair or denial? I ll flip a coin. The coin says escape, ship away to other worlds... denial then... perhaps. |
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