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Why Fixing the World Makes It Worse: A Radical Buddhist Critique
What if our most advanced solutions are the very engines driving our global collapse? Modern civilization assumes that climate chaos, economic inequality, and chronic anxiety can be engineered away with another technological breakthrough. But this deep-dive exposes a brutal reality: the system is not broken, it is producing exactly what it was designed to create. Key takeaways from the slide-by-slide breakdown: - The Illusion of Control: Why technical fixes to problems mutate into inescapable relational dilemmas. - Iatrogenic Collapse: How modern medical and ecological interventions strip away natural systemic resilience. - Structural Poverty: Why expanded global trade manufactures deprivation by dismantling local capacity for mutual contribution. - Colonized Consciousness: How digital networks systematically extract human attention, trading genuine relational freedom for consumer convenience. - Infinite Games: Why national security built on overwhelming force breeds retaliatory violence, and how true resilience requires shifting from coercive power to shared relational strength. Author Profile: Peter D. Hershock is a prominent philosopher and the Director of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. His scholarship bridges Buddhist philosophical traditions with contemporary public policy, technology ethics, and global problem-solving. Book Overview: Buddhism in the Public Sphere explores how modern values of individual autonomy and technological mastery paradoxically escalate global crises. Hershock offers a profound Buddhist diagnosis of our interconnected predicament, proposing a radical shift from predatory control toward relational virtuosity and shared responsibility. Discover why real transformation does not begin with another top-down policy, but with breaking the addiction to control and rewiring how we inhabit our relationships with the world.
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