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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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Replying to @ShitLordReflex @sonyasupposedly
same, strongly was a great bit in an essay in Wired in mid 1990s (maybe by Po Bronson?) talking about going into a "tech cafe" and he wondered if the weird feeling he got was how cops felt walking into a BDSM club w all the handcuffs and cop hats that's how I feel re "makers"
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they fetishize and make an identity out of something that's ... just part of the day / part of life. I'm not a "maker" when I go weld up some shelving. I don't have (or need, or want) a "community". People cook food. People wash clothes. People make stuff in the workshop. shrug
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eh, it's just like knitting circles. I can see why the culture of it would be annoying though
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also, I've got this PARTICULAR thing where I really dislike people who stick a toe in something and then make it their identity. like...hobby farm LARPer selling 20 cartons of strawberries at the farmer market with a "no farms, no food" bumper sticker. PLEASE hobby != identity
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hobby as central identity has always kinda weirded me out hobbies are things that I do, not things that I am (except in a practical, casual sense like "oh hey do you like reading?" "yeah, I'm a reader")
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people are, to my taste, often far too eager to quickly and cheaply establish identity hobby as identity is bad, but not the worst consumerism as identity is worst ("weed consumption as identity" is the absolute nadir of this )
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yep, I've seen it there too
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