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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.
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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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i wonder if the meta attitude towards rebundling plus the speed of it plus the fact that it is global this time because 4 billion people are on the internet plus we have the ability to destroy our whole species with WMDs plus climate change ... makes this new under the sun
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