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Interesting threat, h/t @sonyasupposedly
FWIW, I read an essay in Analog or maybe Asimov's maybe c. 1995 or so, maybe by Greg Bear, pointing out that every age adopts as hobbies the lifestyle of the former age.
Sohttps://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1156618189972725760 …
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@sonyasupposedly 's question below, I think that there has been an uptick in LEISURE because of societal wealth. More LARPing of every sort today than in 1950, more in 1950 than in 1890.https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1156625694769549312 …Show this thread -
5/ I disagree with the first part - far too simple of a narrative. Cavaliers relocating to N America were lifestyle engineering the status quo back home / maybe 50 years earlier. Boers in S Africa weren't going back to 2000 BC, etc. Re second part:https://twitter.com/infiniturtle/status/1156629192865406976 …
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6/ Yes, I think we're rebundling (great scene in
@nealstephenson 's Dodge is Corvus the Roman LARPer waking up in tent to answer cell phone), but I also think rebundling has ALWAYS taken place One should read up on medieval peasant rebellions and heresies. Nothing new under sunShow this thread -
7/ You think 1968 was the first "Summer of Love"? There were a half dozen rebellions in Europe back in Ye Olden Days when some peasant would start preaching about how the Old Testament but also Group Marriages and then on the gripping hand ...
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8/ The reason we think that old lifestyle construction was monolithic and new lifestyle construction is highly detailed is just Near / Far issues. (Most of) us don't actually know crap about lifestyle construction in 1500, or 50 AD. So it's smooth. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/06/near-far-summary.html …
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9/ I'm a slight bit of technological determinist. I think high societal wealth / high information means that we're going to create more lifestyles, more often, more fractaly, with more resources. No particular thesis to this; just addressing
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10/ Oh, one last note: for the essays in the Farm Book I'm working on, I've been thinking a lot about the 1960s/1970s "back to the land movement" vs the current one a generation or two later. I think we see all of this: more wealth, more varieties, more sub-sub-cultures...
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thoughts on this? https://twitter.com/infiniturtle/status/1156629192865406976 … (obviously doesn't apply to you two directly, but connects to some of our previous discussions of culture, stuff I wrote about in the zine, etc.)
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