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Marshall Kirkpatrick's avatar

First two helpful ideas that come to my mind: (1) balancing the individualism of social liberalism with an adjustment toward collectivism (ideally beyond anthropocentrism) and (2) focusing less on optimism about progress for society first and more on optimism about movements that would shift power away from the extreme inequality that makes pessimism a logical response.

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Scott Wilkinson's avatar

There’s definitely future shock happening, generating its attendant fear of being able to cope with more. The cure is, I believe, simple in theory and incredibly difficult in practice. If populations trusted that their elected representatives would ensure everyone would get a fair shake, whatever the impacts, fear would dampen considerably.

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