That’s one way to frame it: Encroaching corporations are a front, trying to subdue the public, and we need to unite and fight back for ourselves.

Myself I’ve moved away from this. Now, I frame it all as just people with the same fundamental nature, that I understand through little rules. Like ‘In the absence of a better more personal and mutually rewarding relationship we end up commoditizing each other which becomes more and more exploitative over time’. Or ‘We choose comfortable, pandering stories that make us feel better about ourselves, avoid situations to better understand others if they challenge our aspirational truths’.

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trinsic2 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Im confused as to how this looks in practice. Are you saying you embody making the right choices in a relationship as setting an example? or convincing others that this is a good want to go? How do we stop the exploitation of each other in relationships? It seems like its burned into our genetic make up that started a long time ago. We sort of use each other to get what we want. I know there is a higher path, but as you said I don't see how thats possible in commerce as it appears like its exploitable by nature.

	▲	riazrizvi 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I was answering OPs comment, so in practice I’m saying I don’t use these pandering perspectives that provide convenient faceless enemies, and where I’m the good guy. Better to try to improve one relationship at a time, and re-examine ourselves for blame. And that probably we get most leverage out of improving the relationship with our own self first - it has knock on effects to all the others.

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trinsic2 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm wondering if promoting better relationship with each other has the same effect as fighting back against something that is actually harming us?

	▲	riazrizvi 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		There’s overlap - I think mostly we harm ourselves, then we harm each other inadvertently, and lastly we harm each other intentionally. So promoting better relationships is a piece of it, but helping each other not harm ourselves (ie reach enlightenment) has the biggest effect. The hard thing is to balance it with our need to make a living, and to also not trigger some landmine of aspirational truth that others are determined to hold onto when we share our perspective.