So much of our public policy is damaged by voter's emotional attachments. https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/the-tragedy-of-the-commons?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true
This was an interesting article. Thank you for sharing.
The final two sentences hit me rather hard, despite being someone who just got into their 30s.
I tend towards a more pessimistic opinion that people have very little control over the Dao and instead it simply follows its own path.
A lot of people are very emotionally driven, and inexplicably and unknowingly believe in some kind of destiny, and that some path is already set out for them and they are meant to only walk it. And we see this reflected in basically every major religion, and even the irreligious are sometimes bought into it.
I don’t know how exactly we can change enough minds to help people look at the world around them, and their relationship with it, differently. We could create a grand story with a fictional world that follows those principles, not really in a mythological or religious sense, but simply a story of a different world. It may not immediately garner a sizeable following, and would definitely take a good storyteller to come up with interesting and perhaps even gripping stories that could change how we view life, but perhaps I’m just trying to force myself to be optimistic about humans.