Kester Ratcliff
1 min readJun 18, 2022

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I agree, but I wonder if we also agree about what it takes to actually cultivate the imagination and creativity necessary to overcome the global fascist movement at this stage of antagonistic social cooperative vs. social parasitic coevolution? I think the weaknesses they exploit in our cultural system in order to manipulate us need solving so that we can grow beyond those limitations and reach the next stable adaptive state of complexity and scale.

Those weaknesses in our cultural operating system I think are repressed parts of the human condition which we've unconsciously collectively suppressed awareness of because we assigned those to inferior Other groups in order to construct them as deserving of exploitative-domination. I.e. exploitative cultures require over-simplification and ignorance and repression of awareness of parts of the human social condition which they are actually still doing, and those unaware parts of our collective life are the weaknesses which fascists twist and exploit in order to coercively control us collectively.

If we are going to stabilize a humanistic democratic culture at the next major transition in complexity at international or global scale then we need to resolve the inconsistencies in our relatively more democratic culture, which necessarily requires giving up on the notion that democracy and capitalism are compatible. (I don't mean the ideal pseudo-definitions of 'capitalism', I mean the actual thing.) Of course that doesn't mean that the traditional binary opposites of 'capitalism' are better or even workable, but there are infinitely more than two possibilities.

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Kester Ratcliff

Lapsed biologist retraining as a social data scientist, often writing about refugee rights advocacy and political philosophy.