4/ So I guess I'm talking, to some degree, about a "memetic commons". But there are other ways to damage civilization. Casually using up or degrading resources for hedonistic purposes instead of husbanding them is another.
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16/ In fact, "being your authentic self" is the polar opposite of civilization. Romans understood this, mocked the Greeks. Read The Illiad. Greeks idolized personal valor and, basically, egoism. Individual action, headless of consequences for others.https://twitter.com/Saradin1337/status/1220790468361048065 …
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17/ I don't want to say "Let 'Shut the !@# up and do your duty.' be the whole of the law", but ... it should be a decent sized chunk of the law.
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Reminds me of the extended meditation on hypocrisy in Diamond Age.
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for a short, glorious, period, hypocrisy was the only sin the left recognized. then they realized everyone they didn't like was actually a nazi, and a thousand new sins bloomed.
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