(April 26, 2025 at 12:40 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: 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.
The problem with this idea is that we could never be competitive in employing such techniques, considering those who are so far ahead of us in exploiting human weaknesses through advertising and propaganda. Not that I would want to anyway, since it would be anti-democratic.