Notices by Pino Carafa (rozeboosje@masto.ai)

@dandylover1 I always try to add Alt Text ... and I just discovered that on Pixelfed you can switch on a setting that forces you to add Alt Text. Great idea so I've turned it on on my Pixelfed account.

Yeah I'm an #ignostic and as such I'd have no problem with anyone calling me an #atheist but I reject any #ideology even if it's based on or if it embraces an atheistic or non religious world view.

Ideology is the problem. ANY ideology. Ideology is the rejection of the way the world really is in favour of how you believe the world should be.

Yes, of course, embrace points of view based on empathy and compassion but NEVER reject reality. That way lies madness.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4q4eny2do

@Radical_EgoCom they combine some aspects of socialism with a form of capitalism that is fettered by regulations and laws to avoid their worst excesses.

I'm not suggesting throwing the "socialism" baby out with the bathwater. I always vote socialist because it's the best that's on offer. But I am hoping we can think of something even better.

@Radical_EgoCom Nordic Countries are a good example as to why purely ideological socialism isn't enough. On top of that, Norway has the luxury of sitting on an enormous store of natural resources that it, as opposed to many other places, has exploited carefully.

I would consider Cuba and Venezuela and the likes "failed states" but I accept that a lot of that is due to USA led sabotage.

@Radical_EgoCom "communism has not been achieved"

That is pretty much my definition of "failure".

Whatever we do to address our problems cannot be something that is always undermined simply because human nature won't cooperate.

This also means that we need to start valuing #technology that can help divorce economic progress from the efforts of individuals' labour, but that means we need to find a way to redistribute wealth equitably. #socialism and #communism have been tried and failed. We need to embrace that reality while continuing to search for something better. #ideology has failed. Now what?

We need to learn how to value more than the fruit of a person's #labour if we want to make #progress . In #capitalist and right wing societies that leads to exploitation, but even in #socialist and left wing societies a lack of freedom to give expression to one's identity and to be valued for it regardless of one's "economic output" will lead to a disenfranchised, cynical, hopeless and apathic population. We need a new political paradigm to fix this. I can't do that alone. Please help.

One way to stave off a #malthusian disaster is to reduce fecundity but all current political frameworks from #communism through #socialism, #liberalism, #capitalism to #farright ideologies are all focused on benefits gained through labour. To avoid a #geriatric holocaust we need to divorce economic progress from individuals' labour, foster self actualisation through art and other non labour focused human self expression so that even those who cannot / can no longer work can benefit. Any ideas?

@lain huh.... where in Europe are those poor unfortunates? Albania?

@thomasfuchs is this a photoshop jobbie or do tests like these actually exist somewhere?

@futurebird Dr. Seuss already identified this problem years ago: http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/tooManyDaves.html