caitlin on tech

via caitlin tweet [https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1701028963643183351?s=20]:

An unspoken premise of capitalism is that someone will invent technology which allows humanity to keep consuming at a frenetic pace and keep expanding the economy without destroying the biosphere we depend on for survival. That’s the only way to make capitalism look like a sustainable model for our planet. But that isn’t going to happen. We’re never going to consume our way out of the ecosystemic problems we consumed our way into. Technology has helped our species in many ways, and will continue to, but no amount of technological innovation is going to make it possible to continue infinite economic expansion on a finite planet with finite resources and an ability to absorb a finite amount of disruption. Human behavior itself is what needs to change — and it needs to change drastically, and it needs to change soon. No amount of technological innovation will ever circumvent that urgent need. We’re like a smack addict trying to figure out ways they can keep using at a high volume without compromising their relationships and employment. We’re like a miserable narcissist believing he can become happy if everyone in his life changes to accommodate his inner demons and facilitate his happiness. Everyone wants change and nobody wants to change. But that is what’s being asked of us. In the age of Bernays capitalism shifted from a need-based economy to a desire-based economy which tugs at the strings of the ego to fuel an insatiable drive to consume and produce and reject contentment with the way things are, and we’re going to have to uproot what those strings are attached to in order to survive. Believing human consciousness can remain chained to these frenetic egoic patterns which drive us to consume and hoard and flail around in a constant state of restlessness and discontentment without destroying the biosphere if we can only come up with the right clever new trick is just a form of spiritual bypassing to avoid doing the real work that needs to get done in ourselves. Our species has come to its adaptation-or-extinction juncture in its development on this planet, and the adaptation that’s being asked for is a drastic change in human consciousness. We’re going to have to grow up and become a conscious species now. Daddy Technology isn’t coming to our rescue. It’s on us. It’s time to wake up and free ourselves from the dream of egoic consciousness so we can begin collaborating with each other and with our ecosystem toward a healthy and harmonious world.

but.. imagine a turtle et al.. need tech for something we’ve not yet tried.. for something perhaps tech is really capable to do for us.. ie: a global detox leap .. because humanity needs a leap.. to get back/to simultaneous spontaneity .. simultaneous fittingness.. everyone in sync..

mufleh humanity law: we have seen advances in every aspect of our lives except our humanity– Luma Mufleh et al

so..

need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs

imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness as nonjudgmental expo labeling)

tech as nonjudgmental expo labeling.. and we’re missing it

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