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Are You Sure You Want to Improve the World?
Life is complicated. I think we can all agree on that. But there will come a point where the complications of life will lead us to feel irritated.
Or perhaps seething in rage with a lust for vengeance.
How we decide to respond will have ramifications not just for us, but for the lives of others because if we successfully resolve our problem, people will want to follow our example when they’re faced with similar problems.
Obviously I don’t know what the very first problem a human being experienced was because we had problems long before we could even classify ourselves as “human.”
But there was clearly some resistance to some event happening in the external world or the internal world.
Maybe we got sick of being hunted and eaten. Maybe we were terrified of being ostracized from the tribe. Maybe we couldn’t take the harsh weather conditions which led to a lack of food and starvation.
These are all legitimate gripes because humans have an innate will to live, achieve homeostasis and enjoy peace of mind. Dare I say all life-forms have these desires.
So to be blocked from these things could cause us to resist what’s happening. There are then two options.
