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# 20240321
the economists were right: self-interest enacted *is* good for the system
there’s just been one piece missing (and it is reemerging now):
the understanding-through-experience that there are many levels of “self”, nested and overlapping
I operate in self-interest my community operates in self-interest my culture group operates in self-interest my planet operates in self-interest
we are able to operate as agents of a larger whole, and this is not a contradiction of our personal self but a completion of it
the “self” is a waypoint between what is deeper and what is higher, and there are many of them
we’re gonna be just fine, y’all
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