Harari is simply asserting that Whig History is tire and is powered by Nihilism, without trying to make it plausible that this could be the case. This appeals to nihilists and Whigs, which more or less corresponds to appealing to complacency with the appearance of power.https://twitter.com/jim_rutt/status/1211299043713933312 …
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Replying to @HiFromMichaelV
Philosophical nihilism strikes me as true. Which means homo sap has control of its own values and meaning. Whig history - which might also be called naive Enlightenment thinking seems on trend within what we call GameA. Harari is clearly a late-GameA amerlorist thinker.
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Replying to @jim_rutt @HiFromMichaelV
A lot of people seem to think that you can manifest an arbitrary aesthetics (i.e. way the world works) using arbitrary values, or that the most desirable world will form based on acting on the values they have. Both positions are wrong. Values are fully constrained by aesthetics.
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If we agree on specifications, for instance maintaining ecological complexity, or building the most lucid civilization, or playing the longest games, our aesthetics may converge, and our values are not going to be arbitrary.
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You are free to drop your identifications with maintaining any system (ego, relationships, group, nation, species, God, life, consciousness, complexity), which also makes you free to drop all your values and reach Nirvana. There is nothing you have to do if you stop caring.
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When you make a left turn like that (aesthetics/values may be convergent ↺ drop all your values to reach Nirvana), I'm never sure whether you're being deeply sarcastic/ironic (about e.g. the desirability of Nirvana) or sincerely holding an ambivalent or neutral stance
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The latter. It is true that you reach nirvana if you stop identifying with all dimensions of caring. And building sustainable interpersonal ethics beyond transactionality requires an aesthetical commitment to shared purposes.
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I think that it is a big and even funny mistake to consider Nirvana to be morally superior to Samsara. The whole point is that desirability is completely mutable. No state is preferable to another unless the particular configuration of a mind makes it so.
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Samsara (never heard of it prior) seems to be "yet another fairy story" to ameliorate fear of the dark.
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Samsara is simply the Sanskrit word for working at the office or factory job every day, for living an unsatisfying and reactive life running in a hamster wheel, as opposed to getting your head far enough above things to make deliberate choices about what you identify with.
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