Post No. 3,445 - some further life reflections: sequential challenges/struggles against nonBPM/evil (~563 words; 4 minutes)

 

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(a golden dawn backlights grass stems leaning from left to right, and glistening with water droplets like gems)  

  

Something I have done quite a bit of over the last few years is reflecting on this life's journey. 

In many ways, one of, if not the, main aims in my life has been defeaating the evil known as neoliberalism. 

This is something that many others have been part of, and my role has probably been similar to that of a mid-level manager, in many ways. 

For context, I had some experience of being a ... foot soldier (actually, I was quite seriously told I was cannon fodder) in the struggle against that form of totalitarianism known as communism in the USSR ... and my work on advanced forms of working with energy is for use by those in the next great struggle - whatever that will be (I won’t try to guess, let alone write about what I think it could be: it is not for me to know, and my perceptions are coloured by the current multiple, major struggles). 

My life was not as well focused or clearly directed as I would have liked, but there were also other, personal lessons to go through (and, in some of those, I have realised that some warnings/admonishments/abjurations were from ... future me 😊 ). 

Be that as it may, in terms of the struggle against neoliberalism, the world is getting close to having a sufficiently adequate majority against that evil that it will be overcome - and, to quite an extent, much as with the vote that overthrew Orbán in Hungary, it is coming out of people who are experiencing the long- and thoroughly predicted shortcomings of that system.  

One of the reasons I was so willing to resist neoliberalism was that its flaws were so blindingly obvious - as were the flaws of those greedy, gullible, egregiously amathiac fools who allowed themselves to be duped by its lies and scammed by the mirages of its agents and their too miraculous claims. 

Unfortunately, while the evil system is starting to fall, the flaws that enabled it still at least partially still present ... I would suspect in a majority of the weak fools who enabled it. 

And that is why these problems keep recurring - in a changed form, it is true, but, much as the struggle against bigotry will only be won when we address bigotry itself, rather than whatever form it has found to act through of late, so too will the sequence of spiritual and moral and character challenges only stop when we start addressing the personal flaws that make them possible. 

PS - the separate, deeper, nuanced examinations of spirituality, psychic matters, and consciousness based approaches to UAPs/UFOs is helping the world to move towards addressing those flaws, but that work - excellent thought it is - is not yet being done at the necessary scale.  

 

Finally, one of the many problems of heavy psychic work is that it is not conducive to normal human connections, which means I am entering the final stages of my life, with its physical struggles to stay alive (breathing is an effort, at times) with no support - and, in fact, owing to some all too human decisions by me, with still active obligations that will see me going back to work. 

Life is a mix of the great and small, and we can fail or flourish on everything on that scale ...  

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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Post No. 3,175 - Life purpose and meaning

A few years ago I posted (on my political blog) an initial response to reading a sample of Rutger  Bregman's "Humankind" (Bloomsbury, 2020, ISBN 978-0316418539 [I haven't bought it yet, so can't give an e-book ISBN 978-1-4088-9896-3], Amazon). It's been too long since I read it for me to remember enough of that book to post any sort of sensible review or critique, other than: 

• it describes what is considered the real life basis for the dreadful book “Lord of Flies” - and, in real life, it was cooperative, community-based, and caring; 
  
  and 

• overall I thought it was good, but I disagreed with some aspects of it (which I will not describe, as you should read it - knowing I consider it good or maybe even very good, but not perfect - and make up your own mind). 

The author has a new book out, titled “Moral Ambition” (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025, ISBN 9781526685575,  Kobo, Apple Books,  Amazon); , which I found out about through a podcast interview: 

“How to Be a Good Person in a Bad World: A Conversation with Rutger Bregman”   The PoliticsGirl Podcast (who I first came across on YouTube)   “Historian and author, Rutger Bregman believes there’s an antidote to the sense of emptiness that so many people feel, and it’s the will to make the world a better place. To devote your career to the greater challenges of our time rather than just making money. That the time has come for a moral reawakening. That moral ambition not just financial ambition is what we need if we want to fix the world and actually like our place in it”       

The interview was interesting, and is well worth a proper listen - the blurb above gives a good sense of what mostly it was about, but it also introduced a new organisation the author has created/helped create with a view to making the world a better place:  

Moral Ambition   https://www.moralambition.org/      

The non-profit organisation is aiming to acheive its aims in a number of ways, including funded fellowships, organised activities including “ambition circles”. 

I don’t know the organisation, and I haven’t read the book, so I can't definitively say anything one way or another, but a quick Internet search was promising and didn’t throw up any red flags (which doesn’t mean they don’t exist, so keep your thinking caps on). 

Probably the best search result, in my opinion (IMO), was: 

“Effective altruism is stumbling. Can “moral ambition” replace it?”   https://bigthink.com/high-culture/effective-altruism-moral-ambition/   “In “Moral Ambition,” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success”   which includes a reference to   

“The consequences of having a ‘bullshit job’”   https://www.eur.nl/en/news/consequences-having-bullshit-job   NPO Radio 1      

There was also an excellent review in The Big Issue (with some surprising info about the advance and where that is going),   The Guardian,   goodreads,   and   Readings. 

PS - see also “The EA's guide to Moral Ambition”   https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/piNDCbpmGiy8P85hL/the-ea-s-guide-to-moral-ambition   “Epistemic status: An email thread with a representative for Moral Ambition, consumption of Rutger Bregman's and Moral Ambition's book and social media. A year of leading my local EA group, deep understanding of EA ideas”       

I have subscribed to the website’s email service, but have not become a member - partly because I am already busy. 

 

I also wish to point out that this has been addressed before - most notably, IMO, the organisation 80,000 hours. The new organisation will, I suspect, do more than what 80,000 hours was able to do with their resources - which could not match what the new organisation has (see The Big Issue review), through no fault of their own.  

In any case, I consider this is all worth a look and a think. 

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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