A Politics of Love (Robert Wright & Marianne Williamson)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Are You Really a Rational Activist?
In theory, all you would have to have as rational actors another and rational, self interestedact. If we can't even get people to pursue their own long term interests, what is the hope for transforming them into these wonderful people? We are already at a point where further oil extraction, every single day we do it, we will not be able to avoid the worst crises of climate change. That entire concept that infuses the modern political and economic systems of the last 100 years has led us to the edge of species suicide.
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