A fascinating example of dystopian, pessimistic fiction displacing the hopeful, optimistic truth. Turns out that Lord of the Flies is dead wrong. Maroon some boarding-school boys on an island and they act sensibly, generously and imaginatively.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months?CMP=share_btn_tw …
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Same energyhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/62832-stanford-prison-experiment-flawed.html …
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Myths like these totally permeate our society! The mind boggles! The heart weeps! The spleen twists!
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Replying to @DanielleFong @JimmyRis and
I'm reminded of the fact that science fiction usually overestimates the pace of physical change (which has become very hard, especially today) reasonably estimates the pace of change in information technology (except AI) and totally underestimates the pace of social change.
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Tighter and tighter feedback loops, big whirls made of little whirls
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so I'm hoping that after all this rips in the fabric of psychosocial spacetime, we can finally get back to the basics.

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*these, but I suppose this can represent the big rip.
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Last option could encapsulate other three maybe
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you are right
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