Episode 4.10: Another Objection: If everyone lived for the present, civilisation would collapse!

The “What if everyone did that?” objection, rather than demolishing The Dewey Principle, reveals the problem at the heart of our existential crises: that our readiness to delegate our autonomy to leaders and other external authorities means that responsibility for the world, instead of being able to draw upon the unimaginable power of our collective intelligence, instead has to depend upon a pitifully small number of single leaders or oligarchies. Our problems - the world’s problems - are too complex to allow this to continue. Only by empowering the whole of humanity, which will require us all to take back our autonomy and take responsibility for ourselves, can those problems be addressed and solved.