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magnetar_industries t1_j9018bc wrote

The best thing to happen is if your world view _does_ fall apart. Because at least then you will be able to consciously _choose_ the factors that will go into building your next worldview. Be sure to give yourself enough time and space and compassion to allow this process to unfold.

The dominant worldviews in practice today are woefully inadequate to the predicaments we are currently facing. It's the next higher level problem as what Einstein said: “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” In other words, we can't solve the problems caused by our current worldview using only the types of thinking that can be generated by our existing worldview. We need a new _kind_ of thinking.

And this is what is instilling this sense of dread and despair in people who have been paying attention. Believe me, many of us who have been singularity- (and/or collapse-) aware for at least a few years have gone through the stages of grief.

But living in an inflection point of human (and maybe universe) history is going to be filled with amazing and awe-inducing things, as well as what we currently think of as unfathomable horrors. I find a bigger worldview inspired by Buddhism to be helpful for me in learning how to accept, and then hopefully navigate, what's coming.

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