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[usonian]

1. Equality, dignity, fairness and compassion are in our nature.

All the garbage we see is the result of delusion, sold to people by manipulators.



I was remarking to a friend last night that we live better than royalty did. And all the outrage that magats have is artificially induced by rich who trick them with appeals to racism and division, much like advertisers long ago tried to con you into discontent with your "shabby" auto or home so you can buy a new one.

Someone posted on another forum:

IMO, a good life is one with purpose and meaning. People have had these in the past, and these days, many substitute the means to happiness (money, notoriety, power, libido, etc) with actual happiness itself. [0]

I personally find a good life to be one of gratitude, harmony with nature and of rich human relationships with family and others, where the goal is to create happiness for myself and others equally.

How this is done is different for each person, and mostly irrespective of technology.

But it gets back to human relationships. I have always viewed technology as liberative and supportive,[1] not manipulative and divisive as it has gone horribly wrong in the hands of power and money-hungry sociopaths.

There's a Buddhist belief that "It's not the money and influence; it's what you do with them that matters".

[0] David Loy, Money, Sex, War and Karma, free chapter 1 (PDF)
https://www.davidloy.org/downloads/Loy-Money_Sex_War_Karma_Ch1.pdf

[1] Kevin Kelley, What Technology wants
https://kk.org/thetechnium/what-technology/