Cameron Green
@camerongreen.org
This is my place for putting relatively unfiltered thougths. Unfiltered by worries about grandiosity or that I might come to think better of them in time. You can read my longer thoughts here https://camerongreen.org
Click bait is based on wasting our time. If we want better media, one that is designed to inform us, we have to resist clicking it.
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Click bait is based on wasting our time. If we want better media, one that is designed to inform us, we have to resist clicking it.
We are caretakers of a world much older and deeper than humanity
January 11, 2026 at 2:23 AM
We are caretakers of a world much older and deeper than humanity
Meaning is in the life we build together
January 10, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Meaning is in the life we build together
If you take credit for every advance of humankind in the last two hundred years and disavow any responsibility for the problems, you just might be a capitalist
January 4, 2026 at 1:15 AM
If you take credit for every advance of humankind in the last two hundred years and disavow any responsibility for the problems, you just might be a capitalist
You might have the potential for greater things than a nihilistic consumerism
January 3, 2026 at 6:24 AM
You might have the potential for greater things than a nihilistic consumerism
Wealth, fame and power are all perfectly compatible with a parasitic relationship on the rest of society. In an unhealthy society, status is easier to gain by deepening and profiting from the sickness, rather than helping find a cure
January 1, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Wealth, fame and power are all perfectly compatible with a parasitic relationship on the rest of society. In an unhealthy society, status is easier to gain by deepening and profiting from the sickness, rather than helping find a cure
Economic systems don't just govern the creation and distribution of resources, but also power and status
December 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Economic systems don't just govern the creation and distribution of resources, but also power and status
I have been asked twice in the last month if I was Jewish, for simply outlining uncontroversial facts of history. This troubling question seemed to come after I had exposed flaws in the person's understanding. Fighting injustice and fighting anti-semitism are part of the same struggle
December 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I have been asked twice in the last month if I was Jewish, for simply outlining uncontroversial facts of history. This troubling question seemed to come after I had exposed flaws in the person's understanding. Fighting injustice and fighting anti-semitism are part of the same struggle
God is omnipotent and omniscient, but he needs followers to control others and kill for him
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
God is omnipotent and omniscient, but he needs followers to control others and kill for him
The vegan journey: Learn about what happens to animals in the livestock system. Become vegan. Try to tell other people what you learned about the livestock system. Realise many of them don't want to know. Figure out how to maintain your love of humanity and hope for the animals
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The vegan journey: Learn about what happens to animals in the livestock system. Become vegan. Try to tell other people what you learned about the livestock system. Realise many of them don't want to know. Figure out how to maintain your love of humanity and hope for the animals
The more incompetent and insecure leaders are, the more they have to fear from intellectual independence and the truth
December 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The more incompetent and insecure leaders are, the more they have to fear from intellectual independence and the truth
The reason we are taught the history of our nations, rather than the history of how we wrested power from elites and came to have a vote, is that the former can be used to control us, and the latter would make us harder to control
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The reason we are taught the history of our nations, rather than the history of how we wrested power from elites and came to have a vote, is that the former can be used to control us, and the latter would make us harder to control
The urgency and scope of change often overwhelms the compassionate person, still we must focus on what good we can do, including helping build movements that might one day be significant enough to make change at the needed scale
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The urgency and scope of change often overwhelms the compassionate person, still we must focus on what good we can do, including helping build movements that might one day be significant enough to make change at the needed scale
People are locked into ways of being, financial and social, that are hard to escape from, but the only way we will solve the metacrisis is by people freeing themselves enough so that the way they live at least resembles an appropriate response to the metacrisis
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
People are locked into ways of being, financial and social, that are hard to escape from, but the only way we will solve the metacrisis is by people freeing themselves enough so that the way they live at least resembles an appropriate response to the metacrisis
A question worth thinking about - Has the ever-increasing understanding of human psychology been used to further liberate or enslave us?
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
A question worth thinking about - Has the ever-increasing understanding of human psychology been used to further liberate or enslave us?
I'm having trouble relating to people who have the keys to the library of Alexandria in their hands but have no interest in opening the door. Who see suffering and injustice, yet frame looking away as some celebration of their individual choice.
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I'm having trouble relating to people who have the keys to the library of Alexandria in their hands but have no interest in opening the door. Who see suffering and injustice, yet frame looking away as some celebration of their individual choice.
Capitalism is a paper-clip maximiser. In the guise of following rationality and human desires, it really follows its own irrational, inhuman mathematical logic
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Capitalism is a paper-clip maximiser. In the guise of following rationality and human desires, it really follows its own irrational, inhuman mathematical logic
When I see a great or important book sitting on a dusty shelf, I feel something like when i see a bird in a cage
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
When I see a great or important book sitting on a dusty shelf, I feel something like when i see a bird in a cage
I think the insecurity underlying the psychology of many of the more odious rich or famous people and their families is that if they were better people, they wouldn't have become rich or famous
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I think the insecurity underlying the psychology of many of the more odious rich or famous people and their families is that if they were better people, they wouldn't have become rich or famous
People wanting to implement radical change often justify, or mask the flaws of, their ideas by exaggerating the flaws of the current system and denying the possibility of meaningful reform. If the justification behind destabilising society is "anything is better than this", it is usually wrong
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
People wanting to implement radical change often justify, or mask the flaws of, their ideas by exaggerating the flaws of the current system and denying the possibility of meaningful reform. If the justification behind destabilising society is "anything is better than this", it is usually wrong
The divide of rationality between the religious and the secular might be less important than the one between those who accept the theory of evolution and those who won't. Believing in things that can't be proven is less of a barrier to shared progress than denying incredibly well proven facts.
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The divide of rationality between the religious and the secular might be less important than the one between those who accept the theory of evolution and those who won't. Believing in things that can't be proven is less of a barrier to shared progress than denying incredibly well proven facts.
I do not believe the 1% contains the bad people, and the 99% contains only good. Class-based analysis is relevant and necessary, as our material conditions alter our political viewpoints. Painting all members of one class as morally better or worse than another, however, is inaccurate and unhelpful
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I do not believe the 1% contains the bad people, and the 99% contains only good. Class-based analysis is relevant and necessary, as our material conditions alter our political viewpoints. Painting all members of one class as morally better or worse than another, however, is inaccurate and unhelpful
Many people point to how academia is too liberal. To warrant attention, though, something should not only be true in isolation but also important. Academics pale in political power compared to the press, social media etc. These are owned by avid capitalists from centre to right-wing positions.
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Many people point to how academia is too liberal. To warrant attention, though, something should not only be true in isolation but also important. Academics pale in political power compared to the press, social media etc. These are owned by avid capitalists from centre to right-wing positions.
Given that Socrates is no longer an option, I asked the AI oracles who was the wisest non-religious person alive today. Gemini listed @petersinger.info first, which would have been my pick too. It then followed with Nussbaum, Chomsky, Pinker, Harari and Atwood.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Given that Socrates is no longer an option, I asked the AI oracles who was the wisest non-religious person alive today. Gemini listed @petersinger.info first, which would have been my pick too. It then followed with Nussbaum, Chomsky, Pinker, Harari and Atwood.
A lot of the world's problems come from too many of us taking our own small worlds too seriously and not taking the rest of the world, and this includes the world after us, seriously enough. To live a more ethical life, most people need to rebalance this equation
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
A lot of the world's problems come from too many of us taking our own small worlds too seriously and not taking the rest of the world, and this includes the world after us, seriously enough. To live a more ethical life, most people need to rebalance this equation