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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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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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Vermont had free love communes 200 years ago and some guy from there started a religion based upon some 'golden tablets' he found
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yeah, plenty of "let's run off into the woods and found a utopian society" fossils littering new england
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When you scratch the surface of many of the 19C Utopian movements in the US, you get 'what if we could just bone anyone we wanted?'
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