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Comment by twayt | Hacker News Reader

Pretty much. We're definitely gonna fail to do anything significant about any of this crap until it forcibly ends the way everyone actually lives their lives.

It’s time to mandate a law that requires people in power to take a heroic dose of mushrooms twice a year

Heroic doses of psychedelics don't seem to prevent Burners from participating in the most absurd gratuitous waste of resources that is every BM event. I'm afraid it's not a panacea.

It’s not for a lack of intention though. Lack of critical thinking and maybe justifying the cost? Yes. But in general it seems to be the fastest route to making people realize that they are not more important than the whole.

This would make for a good viral meme, how could something like that be pulled off in the real world I wonder?

It has to be done in secret, by purely good intentioned third party that has some sort of leverage over the people in power.

This group should have one sole purpose of dosing the people in power and otherwise not be allowed to have any further influence.

Until our selection mechanisms choose the purest intentioned people rather than expedient and selfish profiteers, the people in power will be driven to optimize objective functions that aren’t conducive for humanity. In the short term, the best way to fix this would be to reveal what is truly happening around them and force them to confront the consequences of their actions and lack thereof.

This is very different from the game they have become so familiar with and content with playing.

That would be preferable yes, but think about if even the meme gained widespread popularity, especially among the young. If some people could start to wake up and realize how absurd, how fake our so called democracy is, and start to outright mock it and the normies who continue to blindly worship it as our most sacred institution, perhaps we could squeeze a 5% or so improvement in behavior out of them, for a few years anyways until another patch is realized to wipe that belief from people's minds.

I support the jobs the methane will provide

That should be the new HN tagline, I'm honestly a bit surprised to see this article still on the front page. Usually concerning facts get flagged pretty quickly.

It now can not be found on the first 4 pages..

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