Context: I wrote down a question and answer for myself and this post is me thinking about how to frame these things in such a way that this information can be made accessible to more people.
Q: What ideals do you hope that cultures or subcultures of the future converge on? A: I don't have a fully fleshed out answer but here are some of the things I've been thinking about: 1. Being able to understand the vast inherent differences there are with how different minds process information and experience things. Along with the many different implications for that from both the level of the collective and the individual. 2. Accelerating the process by which people acquire and integrate self-knowledge in relationship to number 1. 3. Accelerating the process by which people come to understand the contextual nature of beliefs in relationship to their unique circumstances while avoiding the failure mode of "everything is subjective and there is no inherent right or wrong." 4. The ability to see identity or identities as tools rather than as an all-encompassing reality. 5. Intellectual humility. 6. The mapping out of the blind spots of different people and different collectives including your own, then using that knowledge to make better decisions.
Reframing in more practical terms:
1. Have better relationships by understanding how people naturally are.
2. Have good self knowledge and use that to know what ideals you should strive towards instead of depending on expectations that are not actually compatible with you.
3. Understanding that beliefs can be good or bad depending on the context and trying to understand whether your beliefs are good for you depending on your unique circumstances.
4. You need to have a flexible mindset to be adaptable to many different kinds of situations.
5. Pride blocks off possibilities, humility unlocks new ones by letting you see what things don't work.
6. You need to know what your blind spots are so you can know what to improve in yourself or ask help from other people. Entire cultures can have blind spots as well and one way to know what they are is by looking at other cultures and seeing what behaviors people do there that lead to good results that your culture does not.