[Future] The True Madmen

[Jundo]

I look at the world this week, where the slaughter of many thousands more children and other civilians, food supply famines, weeks or months of missiles falling, and even nuclear weapon exchanges are all being weighed as possibilities, and perhaps likelihoods, our fate in the hands of true madmen ...

... then I recall that some people call my ideas crazy, me as crazy, for suggesting that human nature needs to have a bit less violence and a touch more love, realizing values of non-violence and empathy cherished in Buddhism and many other religions and humanistic philosophies, and that SCIENCE and MEDICINE may quite possibly make that possible in coming decades.

Hmmm.

Okay, if that is crazy, I am happy to be crazy.

We must stop the true madmen from the harms they do.
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Gassho, Jundo
stlah

[MikeH]

I look at the world this week, where the slaughter of many thousands more children and other civilians, food supply famines, weeks or months of missiles falling, and even nuclear weapon exchanges are all being weighed as possibilities, and perhaps likelihoods, our fate in the hands of true madmen ...

... then I recall that some people call my ideas crazy, me as crazy, for suggesting that human nature needs to have a bit less violence and a touch more love, realizing values of non-violence and empathy cherished in Buddhism and many other religions and humanistic philosophies, and that SCIENCE and MEDICINE may quite possibly make that possible in coming decades.

Gassho, Jundo
stlah

There are at least three separate existential crises facing humanity--nuclear war, climate change, and unregulated AI--and the Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever before. The only solutions to these problems that will have any chance of getting us out of these messes will have to seem "crazy". "Desperate times demand desperate measures" and all that. Status quo, comfort, and fear (including fear of offending people) are at least as dangerous as any bomb right now. So, if people are saying you're crazy, then you might be on to something! One kind of craziness that I feel is unacceptable is dogmatic certainty in the rightness of one's own ideas and the in wrongness of any opposing ideas. You've never demonstrated that kind of craziness to my knowledge, but the people you are critiquing do it every single day in every press conference, social media post, and speech they give. Let's keep bouncing around and debating crazy ideas with an open mind for the benefit of all sentient beings...

gassho
satlah
Mike