"I never meant for any of this to happen. I don't even know how it did. I was just going out there every day, trying to do some good... At some point, for some reason, good stopped being an option."
It struck me as so true... how many potentially great people are turned into destructive beings by our SYSTEM. When, Structurally, you must either be the exploiter or the exploited.
I've always believed, and still do, that "free will" is an illusion, but that we must "act as if it exists" in order for our first-person brain to be able to make sense of the world. I think I must amend that statement to say, we might have to "act as if it exists... as individuals"... but that we should strive to create systems where OUTCOMES are all that matter. Don't confuse that for "the ends justify the means"... that's not what I'm saying, I'm saying the total, holistic outcome of a system, as best we can measure that.
Bottom line, we have created a system that not only does not let us reach our potential, it corrupts and degrades our moral selves, in addition to degrading our environment. We must stop with this cult of individualism and thinking only our own Preference matters, it is 1) incompatible with Rule of Law, but 2) we must start thinking Structurally if we want to continue to exist on this planet... we are destroying our environment and each other with our individualism and our self-centered philosophies.
