One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay Tear it all down! Then rebuild it.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay A shared imagination of a different world can have a lot of power.
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
― David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy -
One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay "Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people" (a dead person, probably)
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
There is a profound tension at the heart of our world.
There is a heartfelt wish to find ways to live in peace with one another; to develop a society in which we are all treated fairly, which encourages us to develop ourselves and each other to the full extent of our potential.
But we see ourselves clinging on to ideas of ourselves as tribalistic; helplessly drawn through our nature into conflict with each other; prone to distraction and escape.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay I wrote a punky song about our tendency, especially when we’re somewhat comfortable, to forget that regular people created this whole deal, good and bad.
When we do that, we only ever come up with ideas that pick ineffectually at the edges of the problems.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay except for forsaking material belongings to our feline overlords. That one's mandated by the gods. -
One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay This is why I am so angry that the word "conservative" is burned. I would like to be conservative, as in, to conserve and protect what is good in society. Like laws that protect the weak from the strong. Or rights that apply to every human being. All made up, but worth protecting.
Is there maybe a better word for wanting to protect the achievements of society?
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay She forgot the most unimportant thing that humans made up: gods. Without us they don't exist.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
I have begun a campaign denegrate the phrase "it is what it is", which supports the illusion of a default status quo which it is useless to oppose.
Because it ISN'T 'what it is'. It's what it became. And it CAN be changed.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay Gods.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay This is why Sociology should be a core subject in school. Otherwise all this gets taken for granted and we're all doomed.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
i knew it! 365 days a year is so random. why such an odd number when it could be 400.
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@Natasha_Jay
"We didn't start the fire"
With apologies to anyone who now has the same ear worm that I do
@snaprails @Natasha_Jay We (in general) ignored the arsonists pouring kerosene on it.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay
Life is exactly that—an echo of our own choices. The world around us isn't just something that happens to us, but something we actively shape with every daily brick, whether in our routine, relationships, or thoughts.
Knowing that we built everything up to this point brings huge responsibility, but also a surreal freedom: if the current scenery doesn't please us, the pen is still in our hand to change the script. We can absolutely build it differently!
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay The frustrating part of this that yes, it's totally correct, but we, as a society, just. don't. change. it.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay
"eating meat" is another one of those extremely deadly made-up concepts. -
P pelle@veganism.social shared this topic
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@Natasha_Jay The frustrating part of this that yes, it's totally correct, but we, as a society, just. don't. change. it.
@ainmosni @Natasha_Jay ackshuallee... as a society (which society? who? where? when?) we do change a lot, but not at the same time, everywhere, in the same way.
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@ainmosni @Natasha_Jay ackshuallee... as a society (which society? who? where? when?) we do change a lot, but not at the same time, everywhere, in the same way.
@joe_vinegar @Natasha_Jay fair, although right now it feels like the main change factors are in the wrong direction.
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One of the great lessons in life is that we built this.
All of it.
And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built.
We can build differently.
@Natasha_Jay More 'they' than 'we', but yeah. Time to change the rhetoric to reflect the values of the kind and build the society of the caring by heavily taxing the unkind and uncaring
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@Natasha_Jay This is why I am so angry that the word "conservative" is burned. I would like to be conservative, as in, to conserve and protect what is good in society. Like laws that protect the weak from the strong. Or rights that apply to every human being. All made up, but worth protecting.
Is there maybe a better word for wanting to protect the achievements of society?
"Modern Social Democracy".
OK, more of a definition than a word, but probably still worth looking up to see if it matches what you are aiming to preserve.
