“We can intentionally capture what would otherwise be our vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and failings… as a species… and use them to drive civilization toward something truly magnificent… rather than, as is more commonly the case… malignant.

The simple protocol is that you invent something so amazing that no one wants to be left out, and, when implemented, you get healing, community, remediation of ecological damage… and so on…

It’s not the best example, but Elon Musk understood this. He used the existing problems that cars propagate … to produce an entirely new machine that effectively outperformed everything. You don’t buy one ‘because you’re an environmentalist’, but rather, because it’s one of the most amazing cars you could ever own.

This example is fraught with pitfalls, but can nonetheless be used to illustrate the property at issue here…”

— infraheard