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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
See this attitude everywhere- hard to articulate or outline exactly what it is.. some kind of personality-aversion “well acktually” obstructionist pseudo-ownage “Can’t go to Mars! Toilet no work! Bureaucracy says no! Techbro bad!” Someone should catalogue and rub nose in later
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@mattparlmer
Okay, this is some next level degrowth bullshit Attitudes like this are how we get 50 years of stasis Some comments on the points twitter.com/Pinboard/statu…
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Low-Commotion
@lo_commotion
I'm fascinated by these people psychologically, I really want to understand how these people think. I think at least part of it has to be that they watched things that had certain sets of moral assumptions (Avatar would be a good modern example since it's pretty de-growthy)-
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Low-Commotion
@lo_commotion
And it combined with some prior psychological leaning towards zero-sum thinking to become their worldview. Essentially, they never progressed beyond a simplistic "one person's growth is another's suffering" worldview because it became an emotional local maxima for them.
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Low-Commotion
@lo_commotion
This is an odd comparison, but it reminds me of Robert Kiyosaki's "We can't afford that" vs "How can we afford that" mindset dichotomy, just applied to societal rather than individual goals. Cheems are poor dads.

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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
It’s 2024, you’re watching the Altman/Hassabis cage fight as Spectator Index notifications roll in…. “China launches special military operation in the Free State of Irkutsk”
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