Regarding the topic of the article, you really nailed the civic hypnosis angle; it's honestly so insightful how you framed it. What if all that focus on cosmic lottery winners was redirected into, like, actually building up public services and proper funsing for schools, imagine the societal upgrade we'd see?
We might have the kind of world where life was easier for a lot of people, with lower levels of exploitation. Not only could we maybe have a middle class, but a larger one. (And maybe we could turn more attention to reforming the "criminal injustice system".)
But that's the nature of civic hypnosis, isn't it? We don't even really understand what's being done to our minds or that we're deluded.
Thank you for being a reader and for your comment. I appreciate you.
Regarding the topic of the article, you really nailed the civic hypnosis angle; it's honestly so insightful how you framed it. What if all that focus on cosmic lottery winners was redirected into, like, actually building up public services and proper funsing for schools, imagine the societal upgrade we'd see?
We might have the kind of world where life was easier for a lot of people, with lower levels of exploitation. Not only could we maybe have a middle class, but a larger one. (And maybe we could turn more attention to reforming the "criminal injustice system".)
But that's the nature of civic hypnosis, isn't it? We don't even really understand what's being done to our minds or that we're deluded.
Thank you for being a reader and for your comment. I appreciate you.