Did you try being bored by it? "Oh it's one of those nightmares again, let's get it over with. Where is the monster chasing me? Ah, there it comes, yes, eat me, I'm so scared, aaaah"
I never had such extreme episodes but enough that I did actually get bored by them.
What's important to say is that I was a very anxious person, scared of everything. I did decide to start confronting my fears and getting rid of them. Part of it was accepting the fears and just letting myself be scared without the judgement of fear being bad. Accepting the fear as part of myself and my psyche. Getting bored of nightmares definitely coincided somewhere around that time.
So yeah, I would suggest working to solve your issues in waking life.
There are a lot of people that are against not having to work. All people that own capital, which is not only the super rich. They might not want to work themselves, but they definitely want it to be generally the case that people should have to work to survive. And many people without capital that are brainwashed by these kinds of people, also want it to be necessary.
But yeah that's the thing, even you call it "trained" sociopathy. I.e. everyone else could be trained into it as well. Of course that wouldn't happen because people are different, we can't predict everything yada yada. If you grow up with awareness about richness and the good of socialism, communism and so on it's more unlikely you make the same mistakes and so on.
But if you're extremely poor and have a mindset of "oh I just have to work hard and then be rich eventually" and actually aspire to be rich, which a lot a lot of people do, then I think those will quickly become exactly the same as current rich people. The reason the system still works is because there are still a majority of people believing in it and supporting it. Those poorer people would, if they became rich, be essentially the same kind of rich person as current rich people.
But if the birth isn't today, the pregnancy might as well not exist. I mean of course the physical disadvantages of having a big belly are relevant, but the baby isn't, it can't do anything, it will never be born
Sure, people might try it out more because of the "apparent" lack of consequences... But the reason we humans don't do violent shit isn't because of things, it's because of other humans, and they remain exactly the same.
If one person turns out to be a murderous maniac, the people around them would probably band together and take them out at the start of the loop, effectively being a very real consequence you'd wish to avoid.
What changes though is only your current external situation not relating to humans is staying the same. Everyone can still continue to grow and go to therapy, learn more about themselves and the world. This is basically almost completely still the real world. Most changes a human notices is the humans around them changing, not the walls of the apartment. Relationships still evolve, breakups happen, new love can be found. Science can still continue, we can use human memory and the internet to collect and analyze data. Instead of amassing physical wealth we might amass knowledge.
There's so much narrative around current society how AI is terrible for taking jobs away.
That's the entire point! That's good! We're supposed to not need to do anything anymore with advancing technology.
The problem isn't that technology takes jobs away, the problem is that the savings are converted into more profit for the ultra rich, while it should be converted into having to work less for everyone.
Then we agree. It just sounded like you somehow attributed more inherent evilness to them than everyone else. I of course agree that the resulting behavior is worse, but mostly by accident through the situations they've been in.
We would disagree there then. In my opinion the only difference is the situation people are in not allowing them to get more. If you need to work 2 months to get a new phone, gotta be "happy" with it for at least 2 months, and also can't buy something else new.
If you look at lottery winners, most of them manage to lose all the money relatively quickly.
Most "non-rich" people spend their money they get from working quickly/instantly.
Yeah of course we can override our desires, I never said anything to the contrary. The difference though is not the existence of the desire, but the lack of overriding it.
idk, the only "personal data" GitHub requires is an email address... If you don't have a throwaway one not associated to your identity yet, what are you even doing on the internet :D
Our behaviors are really quite simple. It has been shown a few times that our logical explanations for how we decide on our behavior are mostly rationalizations after the decision has been made, not actual reasons. I.e. like you say, we want more, then we find an explanation why we would want more.
For example, someone likes a new phone because it's shiny and new, and says "why wouldn't I treat myself once in a while", "it's faster which makes me more productive", "it has X and Y new features which are useful in A and B situations"(which they'll never encounter), and so on
It helps no one to be depressed about it either. So if someone is feeling well adjusted while recognizing the unjustness and cruelty of society, wanting to change it, good for them.
Most people don't just randomly stumble into legitimate/true behavior. We're apes, we see something and then do. If it all gets moderated away, the chance for legitimate/true behavior drops dramatically.
Not all situations are simple. Someone is lashing out at people because their mother died. Everyone is understanding. But if you tell the person who is lashing out to cut it out because they're being an asshole, then suddenly you're an asshole, not the person behaving as an asshole initially.
There are a lot of similar situations with similar or other severity.
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Did you try being bored by it? "Oh it's one of those nightmares again, let's get it over with. Where is the monster chasing me? Ah, there it comes, yes, eat me, I'm so scared, aaaah"
I never had such extreme episodes but enough that I did actually get bored by them.
What's important to say is that I was a very anxious person, scared of everything. I did decide to start confronting my fears and getting rid of them. Part of it was accepting the fears and just letting myself be scared without the judgement of fear being bad. Accepting the fear as part of myself and my psyche. Getting bored of nightmares definitely coincided somewhere around that time.
So yeah, I would suggest working to solve your issues in waking life.