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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Nov 2019

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      1/ > economically division of labor is great. holy cow I think I'm on the verge of a break through herehttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1191691225096687616 …

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      Cities are bad tho. I mean, yes, economically division of labor is great. But cities are IQ shredders, reduce population, enact anti liberty laws, create Talebian fragility, and mold people into hapless bugmen who use "brunch" as a verb. https://twitter.com/_TamaraWinter/status/1191524594030538752 …
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Nov 2019

      2/ * cities create division of labor * division of labor is great, BUT * specialization is for insects * bugmen are insects * cities are for states to make production transparent * cities are population shredders * as they were in Bronze Age (Against the Grain, James C Scott)

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Nov 2019

      3/ * cities / division of labor is not good in and of itself, but are good for the elites (you need to put 5 million people in one place if you want a 3 star Michellin restaurant ...AND have their secret unlisted number for reservations)

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Nov 2019

      4/ so basically Robert Heinlein / James C Scott / BAP synthesis: * a human being should be able to build a house / butcher a pig / start a fire * ...because doing so allows him to escape the bugman cities where he is countable and taxable by the elites

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Nov 2019

      5/ cities are for gay men who brunch, barren women who collect handbags, snivelling policy "wonks" and other castrati retainers bronze age / Heinleinian heroes must forgo specialization and thus economic peak development (no homo economicus here) in order to escape into Zomia

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Nov 2019

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      6/ possible. But have read about cities in other eras; all sound terrible. Thoughts, frens? https://twitter.com/EmperorCoolidge/status/1191710821962932224 …

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Nov 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Shea Levy

      7/ theory is still under development (expect completion around Friday 8pm when I'm truly d̶r̶u̶n̶k̶ suffused with peat-based nootropics). Two answers are (a) yes, we need to fall back to1850s tech level, (b) accelerate to self-replicating backpack fabshttps://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1191711526274646019 …

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      Shea Levy @shlevy
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      Does this imply forsaking everything that (today at least) is only possible because of cities? If not, have you escaped? Or could we build computers, publishing platforms for BAP, long weekends with your bros roasting pigs, without cities as we know them?
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Nov 2019

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          8/ this is orthogonal to my points, and dragging in a @wrathofgnon style critique, which is not my thing I don't care about community building in my critique; I care about the fact that cities shred population and create bugmen https://twitter.com/EmperorCoolidge/status/1191711749097033728 …

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 Nov 2019

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Shea Levy

          9/ blocked and reportedhttps://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1191712458035081218 …

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          Shea Levy @shlevy
          Replying to @MorlockP
          I like people, busyness, noise. I like varying landscapes of expertise, worldview, lifestyle. I would never want to live in a modern city due to the overall culture. I could imagine an ideal one I'd never leave, but not before generations of huge cultural and institutional change
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        1. John Taloni‏ @JohnTaloni 5 Nov 2019
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          Two random thoughts: 1) This is the setup to Simak's City, where the creation of ultrafast vehicles led to the destruction of cities because you could get anywhere easily, and 2) I like the personal habitat idea but in space. Take it where you want, leave whenever you want.

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