Kill the Economy

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108. Have you read Daniel Quinn?

He explores these themes in Ishmael and The Story of B. He comes at it from the position that we are not a broken species - genetically and instinctually flawed, doomed by our Achilles-heel biology to eventual extinction. Instead, we're a very flexible species that have psychologically trapped ourselves into telling mistaken cultural stories about who and what we are, and how we fit into the rest of the universe.

We're not broken, we're simply mistaken. In a sense, our nature is fine, but our nurture is busted. The good news is that while genetics can't easily be rewired, mistaken stories can be recognized and changed, sometimes very rapidly, with enormous cultural consequences.

Humanity is a DNA computer that runs cultural programs. The computer isn't broken, it's just that the programs we're running right now are really buggy. Unfortunately, the program of "Global Industrial Empire v1.0" has such a degree of control over the Matrix that it may take a power-off reset to get the system back to a state where a new program can be loaded.