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“The Road to Mazedom” by Zvi


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Previous post: How Escape From Immoral Mazes

Sequence begins here: Moloch Hasn’t Won

The previous posts mostly took mazes as given.

As an individual, one’s ability to fight any large system is limited.

That does not mean our individual decisions do not matter. They do matter. They add up.

Mostly our choice is a basic one. Lend our strength to that which we wish to be free from. Or not do so.

Even that is difficult. The methods of doing so are unclear. Mazes are ubiquitous. Not lending our strength to mazes, together with the goal of keeping one’s metaphorical soul intact and still putting food on the table, is already an ambitious set of goals for an individual in a world of mazes.

We now shift perspective from the individual to the system as a whole. We [...]

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First published:

January 18th, 2020

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KLdqetnxgprifo9BP/the-road-to-mazedom

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