While I’m happy with the videos, and have nearly finished with the powerpoint ov

While I’m happy with the videos, and have nearly finished with the powerpoint overview, between travel, illness, and working on the product, I haven’t made as much progress this month as I’d wanted. Posting the month’s work to the website made it more obvious – my mind has been occupied elsewhere.

I feel a little stuck, in that I’m not sure where to go next to understand western vulnerability to deceptions. Is it simply that we had trained ourselves for truth so deeply that we were vulnerable to saturation the way we were vulnerable to the church? Why is it that words have this power over us? Is Macdonald right? Altruism? Is that the cause? No one else displays it but us. So is that our weakness? No one else can create commons. No one else tells the truth. No one else practices altruism toward the commons?

I don’t even know how to go about answering this question. And I don’t know if I need to. Do I? I have solve pretty much the full suite of problems. Do I just need to work with what I have, and leave the underlying cause for others? I can solve problems of calculation – that is what I have been doing: that which is necessary. But I don’t really think answering the reason for our vulnerability – if its genetic and biologically driven, or normatively and habitually driven. Perhaps it doesn’t matter. The cure is the same both ways. I suppose I could try talking to Hu. But my experience is that the genetics people overplay the hand. From what I see most of our evolution is endocrinological and very little of it visibly more than that.

I have to give myself a bit more time, but I feel something is just sitting out there waiting for me to grab it, and I can’t quite figure out what.