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im not interested in human misery.
existence is itself misery. the cure is non existence. thats it.
you have to separate technical and scientific progress from some bs ideal of happiness which usually doesn't mean anything but "lets keep things the way they are and conform totally".
its definitely possible for us to have practically unlimited energy for almost everyone. definitely possible to solve the malnutrition problem. definitely possible to protect ourselves from the neurohacking that drug dealers, be they street thugs or mcdonalds, are already performing. this is why there's a need for the p2p distribution of knowledge and technics and a new experimental culture involving drugs, the brain and communication technology.
we should be working towards individual self sufficiency in energy, food etc.
the rest of what you are saying has been worked through by scott bakker with his blind brain theory.
i think what ive said in this thread takes all your points into account. the only thing i dont agree with is making statements like "we have a pre-wired tendency for servitude/dominance hierarchies". i don't think this is quite right, because it wants to explain the existing state of affairs based on a shared cognitive bias. it wants things to be inherently stable and explain away power through animalistic biases. i dont disagree with this completely, i just think that the base level is absolute chaos/death/blindness and not fairness. i also think our ideals of what WOULD be fair and just are also cognitive biases. even our pretensions for what is good are when it comes down to it just a load of babble that's totally blind to the neuromechanics that really run the show.
even our conceptions of freedom/power are so folk psychological as to be almost useless.
nevertheless, we can still manage to keep some basic civility going. property rights, some sort of legal protection, some sort of slapped together band aid that just about works. social expectations still have real effects. you CAN generate the demand for say, running tap water for everyone, and then use this social expectation to threaten power into not fucking with you. there's always a possibility space for politics of some sort.
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