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If we want a different world, we MUST have a cultural shift in which we agree to a new social contract.

We must agree that:

1.) The truth *matters*.

Peer-reviewed, rigorous scientific endeavor is valuable.

Evidence-based study is valuable.

Both must be wielded with compassion, and with the input of all being affected.

We cannot make decisions rooted in greed, insecurities, and harmful ignorance any longer.
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#Philosophy #Humanity #Meaning #Purpose #Socialcontract #TheThreeConnections

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If we want a different world, we MUST have a cultural shift in which we agree to a new social contract.

We must agree that:

1.) The truth *matters*.

Peer-reviewed, rigorous scientific endeavor is valuable.

Evidence-based study is valuable.

Both must be wielded with compassion, and with the input of all being affected.

We cannot make decisions rooted in greed, insecurities, and harmful ignorance any longer.
➡️

#Philosophy #Humanity #Meaning #Purpose #Socialcontract #TheThreeConnections

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It's really wild to me that, when I point to our economic system and hierarchies and condemn the damage that they've done to me and to my life, there are people who would scoff and say, "Yeah well, it COULD have been so much worse though! You got off easy, considering!"

Is that…supposed to make it better?
Should I really be grateful for that?

DOESN'T THAT MAKE IT WORSE?? ➡️

#anticapitalism #Philosophy #Meaning #Purpose

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It's really wild to me that, when I point to our economic system and hierarchies and condemn the damage that they've done to me and to my life, there are people who would scoff and say, "Yeah well, it COULD have been so much worse though! You got off easy, considering!"

Is that…supposed to make it better?
Should I really be grateful for that?

DOESN'T THAT MAKE IT WORSE?? ➡️

#anticapitalism #Philosophy #Meaning #Purpose

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People who champion the nuclear family and insist that it is the only way to have a healthy family, are ridiculously misinformed.

The nuclear family -- as has been enforced by monarchial, state, and corporate powers -- is an exceedingly recent invention.

Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

We evolved to be cooperative breeders, with communities that heavily engaged in alloparenting ➡️

#Alloparenting #Humanity #Evolution #Foundfamily #philosophy #Ittakesavillage

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People who champion the nuclear family and insist that it is the only way to have a healthy family, are ridiculously misinformed.

The nuclear family -- as has been enforced by monarchial, state, and corporate powers -- is an exceedingly recent invention.

Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

We evolved to be cooperative breeders, with communities that heavily engaged in alloparenting ➡️

#Alloparenting #Humanity #Evolution #Foundfamily #philosophy #Ittakesavillage

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One finds more crime in societies that operate more off of shame.

This dovetails with the data showing that regions with higher expressions of christianity, have more domestic violence, child abuse, grooming, SA, & other harms.

I've often noted that the worldview inherent to christianity -- in which humans are seen as "naturally evil" and unerringly given to the questionable concept of "sin" from the moment of birth -- can help excuse even one's bad treatment of innocent people.
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#Atheism

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One finds more crime in societies that operate more off of shame.

This dovetails with the data showing that regions with higher expressions of christianity, have more domestic violence, child abuse, grooming, SA, & other harms.

I've often noted that the worldview inherent to christianity -- in which humans are seen as "naturally evil" and unerringly given to the questionable concept of "sin" from the moment of birth -- can help excuse even one's bad treatment of innocent people.
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#Atheism

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It's not wrong to not need to be "saved" or "chosen" by a god.

You don't need a god to follow good morals.

You don't need a god in order to live a good life.

Humans evolved to thrive when they have good connections with:

1.) Themselves (i.e., they come to know, understand and accept themselves as human beings);

2.) Their Environment (i.e., they spend time in, and, if they so choose, nurture and do a bit of tending in the natural landscape that they call home); and,➡️

#Atheism #Morality

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It's not wrong to not need to be "saved" or "chosen" by a god.

You don't need a god to follow good morals.

You don't need a god in order to live a good life.

Humans evolved to thrive when they have good connections with:

1.) Themselves (i.e., they come to know, understand and accept themselves as human beings);

2.) Their Environment (i.e., they spend time in, and, if they so choose, nurture and do a bit of tending in the natural landscape that they call home); and,➡️

#Atheism #Morality