EthoLiberal Society

(To the grammer police, I know "unfooling" is not a word, but it is used here because the opposite of "to fool" would be "to enlighten" and enlightenment is so far way from the goal of simply "unfooling" a person, to bring them back to reality.) Below is a conversation with ChatGPT If people are easy to fool, how come it’s so difficult to “unfool” them? That’s one of the most painfully true questions about being human. People are easy to fool because fooling slips in thro

Fear and ignorance are powerful, self reinforcing mechanisms of personal and group control. Fascism tends to take hold when it’s clear to the masses that the institutions that support society are no longer functioning properly. The fear and anxiety that this induces puts people in a “burn it down” framework. This is fertile ground for paternalistic authoritarians to seize power, seeking to do just that. Paternalisitc authoritarians claim to have all the answers, they place bl

What is our greatest existential threat? What events or cause/effect scenarios could lead to the end of humanity's existence on Earth? Outside of the scope of astrological events, think asteroids, solar decay, etc., what human caused events could destroy us as a species? The idea that the greatest existential threat to humanity is human activity has been with us for a while. He's an image and a pity statement from a poster created by Walter Kelly in 1970 for the first Earth