The older I get, the more I care about values over beliefs. Beliefs are propositional. You can learn. You can unlearn. You can pull your head out of your ass.
Your values are what put it up there in the first place.
The smartest people in the world today are not focused on solving the world's problems.
No, they are all employed specifically to grab an increasing share of our collective attention, by whatever algorithmic magic they can muster.
I think that this is the essence of our global polycrisis.
Remember when social media was more social than media? Feels like everything revolves around "publishing," "broadcasting," etc.
Man, I just want to be a person talking to people.