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Make obvious jokes that a computer will think is real.

I saw an AI quote what was obviously a joke somebody dropped on Facebook about bees getting drunk.

So basically just have a sense of humor.

I'm not making an argument. I'm learning to identify with a bigger picture for my sanity.

My heart weeps greatly for all of the species that are going extinct on this planet.

And I find some hope that life itself will continue here, even if it's not complex life. Life has survived extinction events before. Life is adaptable.

I'm trying to be less attached to the form life takes, because I can't stop climate change.

So it's something that gives me peace. It's not an argument that what is happening is right. Because it's not.

Anarcho-communism is the way.

There is one source.

I recommend reading nurturing our humanity. Primates have two observable social systems. And they both exist in all societies along a spectrum.

Domination and partnership.

The more domination based a society, the more everybody suffers. Including those higher in the social hierarchy.

Working class men, they are in a strange place because they have hierarchical status based on gender but not based on economic class. This makes it difficult for them to find solidarity with women. And thus more lonely in a system of loneliness.

Communists would blame capitalism of course, and they're not exactly wrong because capitalism is a domination-based system. Marx called this phenomena alienation.

Feminists would blame patriarchy, and again they are not wrong it is a domination-based system.

So on and so forth, but we can take a step back and look at ourselves as apes and see domination is the problem. The will to power.

Buddhism calls this energy Mara, and would call the partnership energy Buddha nature.

It's all the same thing, it's a strategy apes use to relate to each other and survive. Partnership is a better strategy. Assuming your goal is the health of society and the planet rather than personal gain.

Yeah I also disagreed, I've read some very compassionate takes on men's situation written by academic feminists.

Bell hooks the will to change for example. Women can be experts on gender, and how systems of domination effect everyone. Men included.

On the other hand, belle hooks', The Will to Change, is one of the most compassionate and understanding takes on the subject.

So she has an opinion on the validity of the experience, and it is that capitalism and patriarchy is alienating for men, just like it is for others. Especially working class men.

Nurturing Our Humanity, co-written by a female author, uses system science and primatology to validate what men experience in domination based societies.

I know your point was more long the lines of critics shouldn't criticize things that they don't understand, but there are a lot of feminists that do understand and have an informed opinion, because they study how these systems of domination affect everyone, not just women.

I have a kid too, and it eats at me.

But I find comfort in the fact that life will carry on, even if my kid can never have the future I hoped for him when he was born.

It's what gives me some comfort. Taking a larger perspective than just worrying about how humanity will fair.

Civilization doesn't equal the world. Life will carry on and heal from the damage us 'smart apes' have done in our hubris.