Human Nature

[The Grand Nudger]

People's priorities will always be people first, starting with themselves and their families, but including their communities and their nations.  That doesn't leave much left for the planet as a whole or the future.  This problem is caused by both our human nature and the motivations that spring from it.

How can anyone change that?  I don't think we can.  So my problem with human nature is that it almost inevitably leads to undermining our environments.  The exceptions are, as of yet, too rare to make a significant difference in a timely manner.

Wanted to separate this out.  Let's say that's absolutely true.  Not because I think it is..but because if it is, then any credible plan to save the planet exploits that just as aggressively as I might exploit a wild meadow.  That's how we change That...for starters anyway.  

Leaning into misanthropy..if we want the best for the earth or..really, anything we touch, or anyone, we need to learn to appeal to the worst of human nature. If our lowest impulse and our highest aspiration can both be leveraged to some (utilitarian or moral) end, we rig the game. We create an alternative to the suboptimals which did not exist before. I've marketed on that pretty successfully. I've organized community action around the principle. I've propagandized and indoctrinated with it. I've driven people to extreme violence with it. To good and ill ends, ofc. It works. You tell one guy it's cheaper, another guy it's healthier, another guy it's more environmentally responsible, another guy it's more humane, it's more secure, it's more american. It's all true...and even if it weren't...misanthropy doesn't give a shit about lying to the degens. Say anything.