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I Wish I had an Echo Chamber

My political beliefs are weird.

I don't like corporate apologists, since large companies clearly go hand-in-hand with large problems for large numbers of people, and other animals. But the standard reply of 'bring down capitalism', make no sense, so I can't fully get behind it, because nobody can really support something they think of as nonsense.

I'd like to take an interest in Politics, but nobody's talking about the primary key which could allow for real change -- switching voting mechanisms. Every problem someone has with the two parties, and everyone who complains that they couldn't trust any politician proceeds to ignore the mechanism which has pinned them down to a pair of rotten apples. The rest of the conversation sounds like discussing how to bake the rotten apples instead of just getting new apples.

Decades and decades of how to bake rotten apples.

I think in terms of Memetics. On some level, every social movement or group I hear about, I parse through the lens of Memetic theory.

I would love to have shows, or just YouTube videos, where people take Utilitarian theory as true, and proceed from there, rather than rehashing some clumsy high-school-level debate on basic ethics. I've been there, got the piece of paper, and I want the next level of the conversation, but it's beyond unrealistic.

I hear the same stuff over and over on the web, and generally don't engage, because someone's 10 stages of assumptions in their 'anti-capitalist' rant, or whatever, and I'm so far removed from their belief system, I'd have to perform a lot of internal translation to communicate with them.

I often think it'd be nice to have an echo-chamber, even a small one, with a couple of podcasts or just a chat board. Humans think in groups, and so far I've had to do most of my thinking by reading people's thoughts (mostly dead people). It'd be nice to have a space where I could develop thinking, rather than just hearing fundamentally incompatible world views and attempting to 'translate' them in order to converse with people.