I think an internal approach is useless. Humans are not the same. Everyone does their own thing, despite whatever the majority culture is. Even though humans are all unique, this doesn’t actually result in random, unpredictable behavior.
Rather it’s the opposite. There are so many of us that our most common instincts prevail in the face of sheer numbers. If you don’t understand what I mean, then think about it like this: when you flip a coin, the side the lands face up is random, right? Even though it’s a 50/50 chance, you’ll never be able to tell with certainty what the outcome is going to be. But, if you flip the same coin many times, a pattern emerges - the 50% odds that we’re familiar with. It’s an intrinsic property contained within the very nature of a coin flip. Humans are the same way.
We can overcome our natural instincts, and we can even be virtuous and beautiful beings, transcending our base desires, but these are exceptions. Eight billion is an incomprehensibly large number. It doesn’t matter if 10 million humans are able to adhere to a morally righteous culture. The rest will ruin it by breaking the contract, a contract that only works if everyone follows it, a contract that is simply impossible to enforce on that scale.
It doesn’t even have to be true that these remaining people are “evil” or “bad” or “tainted” or “selfish” or whatever label you want to paint them as. Everyone is different, and in fact we may even think of many of these people as “good”, but a vast number of people will possess some level of base desire, and a lot will act on it in some way. These little things do not mean much on their own, but in the face of billions of people it is impossible for anything to completely oppose it.
Just as there are countless molecules in a wave all working together to tirelessly shave the cliff’s face away, so does the random human animalistic instinct overpower everything. It is futile to fight it in hopes of changing the human race for the better. Against magnitude, all crumbles.
I think an internal approach is useless. Humans are not the same. Everyone does their own thing, despite whatever the majority culture is. Even though humans are all unique, this doesn’t actually result in random, unpredictable behavior.
Rather it’s the opposite. There are so many of us that our most common instincts prevail in the face of sheer numbers. If you don’t understand what I mean, then think about it like this: when you flip a coin, the side the lands face up is random, right? Even though it’s a 50/50 chance, you’ll never be able to tell with certainty what the outcome is going to be. But, if you flip the same coin many times, a pattern emerges - the 50% odds that we’re familiar with. It’s an intrinsic property contained within the very nature of a coin flip. Humans are the same way.
We can overcome our natural instincts, and we can even be virtuous and beautiful beings, transcending our base desires, but these are exceptions. Eight billion is an incomprehensibly large number. It doesn’t matter if 10 million humans are able to adhere to a morally righteous culture. The rest will ruin it by breaking the contract, a contract that only works if everyone follows it, a contract that is simply impossible to enforce on that scale.
It doesn’t even have to be true that these remaining people are “evil” or “bad” or “tainted” or “selfish” or whatever label you want to paint them as. Everyone is different, and in fact we may even think of many of these people as “good”, but a vast number of people will possess some level of base desire, and a lot will act on it in some way. These little things do not mean much on their own, but in the face of billions of people it is impossible for anything to completely oppose it.
Just as there are countless molecules in a wave all working together to tirelessly shave the cliff’s face away, so does the random human animalistic instinct overpower everything. It is futile to fight it in hopes of changing the human race for the better. Against magnitude, all crumbles.