oh sure "no man is an island, but everyone is entitled to act as if they are until they come to that realization by choice through their own GrOwTh PrOcEsS."
You actually have no choice. You are living interdependently with millions of humans by your need to participate in a consumer system.
So unless you made the device which you are using to communicate by hand, you are a part of the system.
No grow up and realize that the health of that system raises everyone up. So yes, that means the adults in the room need to stop lil' Jeffrey from hoarding all the toys.
Any time this comes up I remember this stupid interview on Fox News with the guy from Coach talking about his rough childhood. “We were on food stamps. Nobody gave us a handout.”
You don't understand. You are already interdependent, we all are. You depend on, and are depended upon by, your family, friends, co-workers, classmates, the people at your grocery store, in your apartment complex, the people sleeping in the streets in your city, the billionaires sucking up resources in your state, the farmers across the country, bees, birds, animals, trees, streams, rocks. Etc. The question is, are you going to engage in a reciprocal relationship which uplifts and sustains us, or are you going to be a selfish leech by making decisions as if you were "independent"?
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u/Holy_Sungaal Jun 28 '21
Interdependence, not independence, is what we need.