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Joseph H Ladarski's avatar

It infuriates me that a tiny group of techbros and whackjobs decided none of us are going to have a democracy anymore.

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Justin E. Schutz's avatar

Respectfully, my emotions often align with yours, Joseph. Though I think that what the "techbros" have decided is that, they are going to have it All. For them, All is money and power. They don't care about democracy anymore than they do about communisim, neither of which have ever really existed and most people don't know what the words even mean. This I think is the most important part of what "we" don't have. It's not knowing those words, though that might help as well, it's community that we need. With an embrace of compassion, consideration, humanity and an acceptance of our differences. The question is can we as people, live as we the people. The answer has to be yes, or the planet will be too small to hold us all.

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Richard Edelman's avatar

How would you suggest we navigate through this evolutionary bottleneck?

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Bret Primack's avatar

Good question. If we are in an evolutionary bottleneck, then survival depends not on dominance, but adaptation—especially emotional and cooperative intelligence. That means strengthening empathy, rebalancing technology with wisdom, and rebuilding community structures that reduce isolation and despair.

Individually: stay grounded, connect locally, resist narratives of collapse as destiny.

Collectively: we need systems that prioritize long-term survival over short-term gain—ecologically, economically, politically.

The bottleneck won’t be escaped by brute force or faith in innovation alone. It’ll be navigated through conscious, coordinated evolution. The window is still open. But not forever.

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Richard Edelman's avatar

Totally agree. Serving artists, healers, and activists through conscious evolution is my life’s work.

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Manuela Thiess Garcia's avatar

I am heartened by your constant optomistic reminders, Bret. They sure can't hurt. My pessimism looms larger in my mind as I know only too well, that we freer thinkers are not only in the minority, but in danger of being stifled, once and for all by whatever means "they" devise as necessary.

Still, it behooves us to stand up while we can.

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