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Our actions are determined by #Believes & #Values. If traveling is the source of self-identity and we read that flying contributes to only 3.5% of global emissions, then giving up flying makes no sense. Same thinking arises for small countries who emit maybe 1% of CO2. We might feel that 'protesting is not our thing' because it's just not civilised. This is a thread that explores #Mindsets, beyond just blaming elites, in order to make sense of why we keep racing towards the abyss. 🧵#ccmindsets

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Why tie yourself up to an idea, a narrative of the world, to keep a logic that shall never be broken? Why build up all this nonsense of people that you sustain by saying "I believe this" when reading unproven headlines and statements with correlation gaps in them… when you could just not care, be humble, assume you don't know everything and something unproven is not worth your time? Why would living without that be wrong or unhappy?

you *really* don't need to figure out everything at once, to be right from the start, and to never move a single inch from that and whoever supports it — and you shouldn't care if you've been wrong and what you tied up with feels dumb if it was wrong. You don't create happiness imho, your narrowness creates poor decision making (since you base it in what you think evil wants from you and spiritual lies upon), isolation (you tend to break ties and stay with whoever #believes, whoever agrees with the narrative) and narcissism (you have to keep pushing because it all builds up, and you get a rush from a sense of rightness and righteousness).

You still have tools to create truth. First you can have everyday experiences to see how people are around you. You can stop to observe objects and events around you, and think about them. You can notice new things — and then search up the whys, see whatever perspectives you can, and think "what lends to itself easily, what gaps does each idea have, why could that be, what can I see that checks off every time and seems to work no matter what anyone wants"

I shouldn't even mention how believing in something you pull out purely from your emotions sounds eerily similar to a psychotic episode, but there's people who legit believe feelings are a way to enlightenment — when your mind is actually a black box that has no chance at checking by introspection anything about the world that randomly pops up from itself