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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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2/ during the agricultural age, the nobles hunter (LARPed hunter gatherer behavior). during the industrial age, the nobles LARPed pastoral, with country homes and gardens and follies Bear (?) predicted that in the information age we'd LARP industrial age. Bingo! - "makers"
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@LibertyFarmNH and I c̶e̶l̶e̶b̶r̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶M̶i̶c̶h̶a̶e̶l̶ ̶B̶o̶l̶t̶o̶n̶'̶s̶ ̶e̶n̶t̶i̶r̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶t̶a̶l̶o̶g̶ LARP all three Toffler "waves" - hiking about in the woods, raising livestock and gardens, blacksmithing / sewing / welding / woodworking, and - of course - code 9-5.3 replies 0 retweets 11 likesShow this thread -
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4/ To answer
@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 …ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,
🎀 sonya supposedly 🤖 @sonyasupposedlyolder people, has there been an uptick in "consult the ancestors" lifestyle engineering? (see Jay's second tweet for examples.) certainly feels like a trend in SV I wonder whether the boom in archaeogenetics research has had an influence, even indirectly
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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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finite turtle @infiniturtleReplying to @infiniturtle @sonyasupposedlyin the past, all the lifestyle engineering narratives were really deep — went all the way back to the beginning of time. we lost that when we tried to kill religion. now we are in the process of re-bundling and telling a very deep story once again, this time featuring Science3 replies 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
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 sun2 replies 0 retweets 12 likesShow 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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Replying to @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly and
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@ribbonfarm has arrived at an identical conclusion but he had a nifty name which I cannot remember. But he compares lifestyle construction to alternate reality goggles that give us our preferred overlay. Very similar to what you describe with the dogs actually.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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