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Ephics - epic ethics

Converts the transformation into a human readable format and deals with the guilt by reasoning and immunotherapy

For a TL;DR check the putchdeck dot pdf.

Interview - unfortunately only in Finnish, but YouTube autotranslation will work to some extent. Cringe, awkward and clumsy. But did you think paradigm shift would be sugarcoated?

Ordinary people's reactions to vegan and millionaire maxims?

We are proposing to fix humankind by two ephics maxims (honest, just and based AF principles).

Removing the global destructive power of billionaires and their sycophants and going vegan the systemic way.

These two maxims form the cornerstone of a system that allows us to generate a global strategy for an honest, just and based future. A future where the polluter pays, the destroyer pays for the repairs, the traumatizer pays for the therapy and even the billionaires can afford mental health care.

Most people get instant joy from the idea of honest leaders that could have the spine to fix the world. The will to change the future, the billionaires are rooting for, is huge. Planetwide going vegan by systemic means is totally agreeable when compared to a planet without the narcissist geopolitical destructive power.

The exceptions to this seem to be the ones stuck up in economics or the ones who've been in politics for a long time.

Laws of Physics and the guilt from universal ethics

People won't feel guilty if I tell you about apples and gravity or the speed of light.

People will feel guilty if I tell them about the consequences of the universal application of a vegan diet. What if all eight billion of us would go as vegan as we can?

With our herd animal hardcoding we've been programmed to feel destructive shame, or toxic guilt or rage.

Systemic change and guilt

We have two main paths to transformation. Individual and systemic.

Individual approaches can be done, but only by a selected few. Think of a drug addict whose social contexts are woven around the substance and the delicate social dance around acquiring the substance. The amount of deprogramming and reprogramming from the 12 steps is staggering. The feeling of being different or the self isolation from the herd can be paralysing- It can be done, but most will fail. Individual approach depends heavily on brutal honesty that the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 steps teaches.

Systemic sustainable change on the other hand is automatic. The herd behavior changes around you and you don't notice the change. But systemic change requires conscious manipulation, nudging, intervention or education to start happening. Effective systemic change requires leaders to acquire honesty of the planetary 12 steps program.

If you root for the individual change, the guilt and the shame make sense. If you root for systemic change, the destructive and toxic emotions will block you.

The systemic change has been tested with a million killing machines, addicted to heroin. The test was called Vietnam war. If it works with heroin it will work swiftly also on bacon, flying and everything we depend it to work with.

Leaders toolkit for the future

The systemic approach for the better requires the correct leaders with a clear and just strategy.

Value based realism. Eternal green growth. Carrot. This is the normal speech on the top of the progressive food chain.

On the conservative peak the vocabulary consists of austerity, hoax, stick.

The good side is bound by the limits of acceptable and normal.

The dark side is not, thus taking us from normal towards dystopian in leaps.

You cannot really tell who's good and who's dark as the seemingly good ones seem to turn their noses brown and lose their principles when the first intimidation or a promise of absolute power arrives.

Or could you? If not keep the good guys pure from corruption, then at least have a reasonable process of figuring out when the power turns them sour?

As it happens there is. But it requires you personally to deal with the guilt and desensitize it with two monoliths of justice and a few more loose instructions to guide you.

Ephic maxims as the monoliths

Systemic approach desensitization will give us the possibility of talking about the laws of physics (okay ethics) in a format a normal human can understand.

Instead of gigaton, emission trading, co2 equivalent, LUC, taxonomy, emissions, carbon sinks ephics turns the narrative to the unthinkable metrics of heated or cooled square meters, kilometers driven, personal dietary habits and even the taboo of personal lifestyle (formerly known as carbon footprint thanks to British Petroleum & Ogilvy & Mather).

From these metrics we'll select two keystone monoliths with the purpose of litmus testing our leaders.

These ephic maxims are food (vegan) and personal lifestyle (under the millionaire emissions). They're treated a bit differently here, but nevertheless added to a line where the other end is the dark side and the other a universally ethical side that, if applied by systemic, can sustain the planet and humankind eternally.

The loose instructions around the maxims are:

Food as the individual desensitizer maxim

Food is the keystone of our cultural wars thus being the prime habit for guilt immunotherapy.

"What is a diet all eight billion of us can eat sustainably". Consider all effects, health, ethical and environmental.

The answer most likely is vegan. Ethical and health aside, to avoid humankind extinction we must reduce our emissions swiftly and the food supply-chain is responsible for a third of our emissions, out of which the majority can be reduced by going plant based. In addition we'll get a bonus of 50-100 gigatons of carbon capture from the rewilding effect.

To become ephic you don't need to go vegan, but you need to be able to phrase a maxim similar to:

"The only just diet is vegan and I'll only root for a leader who is brave enough to support this claim"

Thus giving your leader a mandate or an ultimatum to start being honest, brave and just with this keystone habit.

For normal people it's enough if you can write this down once a week, for a transformative leader the maxim needs to be public.

Personal lifestyle aka the millionaire maxim

For the personal lifestyle the net-zero sustainable level would be roughly 2,5 ton. A small flat, vegan diet, commute and travel via bike, foot or public transportation. This is also something you can use for the systemic guilt desensitizing process, but the aim for this maxim in ephic context is different.

We are trying to select the leaders not blinded by eternal growth, greed and entitlement so we want to see some reflection. Reflection on the effects of inequality. Corrupting effects of power. Effects on society the billionaires and their sycophants are having on us, the planet and our children's future.

This maxim is aiming to establish the limit between the reasonable and the unreasonable. We'll set the starting point for the conversation to be the top 1 % emitting people that generate 16 % of the total global emissions or more than the 2/3 of the least emitting. 80 million people emit more than 5 000 million.

The starting point for this discussion is 25 tons per person. Ten times the sustainable 2 500 kg. 4 times the median Finn (6 tons) 3 times the median american (8 tons) 2,5 times the average finn(10 tons) And way over the average american (16 tons).

The additional ephic rules

Identity

We are participating in the culture wars all the time unconsciously. One crucial part of ephics is to be honest about this and to reflect where we do so.

The conditioning has long roots that exploit our hardcoded biases against anything that deviates from the normal. Nobody can escape it totally, but everyone can try to escape some of it.

With this rule you agree to reflect that perhaps the culprit for all your fears and problems is not the nazi, motorist, leftie, homo, female, muslim, christian, atheist ...

You commit to challenging the identity wars and cultural programming designed to divide us – and to recognizing that the real conflict might be between the people and a handful of billionaires who control EVERYTHING.

Ephic reflection

You'll set a reminder or another method that makes sure you'll spend a few moments to reflect.

Ephic leaders

Leaders are the endgame of ephics. By agreeing on ephics, the leader commits to all the previous with a reasonable effort. Leaders should be rather converted from the old ones than replaced. What this means in practice is that you should seek ephic leaders first from the ones you've supported before. So write an email to the ones you've voted for in the last ten years asking whether they're willing to go ephic. Ask your boss "are you ephic or banal?".

If you are a leader you want this to become a universal strategy rather than your personal vote generator. So when you're meeting people from other parties, bubbles or identities you should tell them about ephics, BUT to tell them first seek the ephic leaders from their own context. Should that fail totally they can switch to a more ephic context.

Leaders claiming to be ephic MUST confront their own leaders publically. Their main effort should be directed to their own organization or party, but challenging the other parties is encouraged.

In addition to the two constant maxims the leaders should generate a list of elephants on the planet. Laws of physics that we're not allowed to talk about. And to advance the systemic change with those, so that it will not make anyone's quality of life any worse. Under the hoods but open for anyone willing to look.

You need to challenge your own party and choose leaders who commit to driving these principles with force and other hefty principles with a promise that the changes will not deteriorate the well-being of normal people.

Ephic tribe

Join a tribe of your own and once you're comfortable with the core of ephics mentor your own tribe. This is a pure win-win ponzi scheme.

Here you can join a pool of ephic trackers and perhaps find your own tribe or a mentor: https://signal.group/#CjQKIAg8X0w2r-cVeTZRuXcYbPsOX4NrBKZivrA6XgXGX6a3EhDjuAJG3r0Mz1Q0PPr1M95M

For anything else you can reach out via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hessuhackman/ or via email: ephics at proton dot me.

What you get from this?

No lukewarm centrist option left.

For time just ran out.

You only get to select between a dystopian hellscape or an ephic future.

The estimated total sum is 6 600 trillion dollars, not including the interest on interest.

This will pay for the future and then some.

The lukewarm nonexisting option is to wait for the economy and tech to the rescue. For another 30 years

Are you ephic?

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