sure, it is; most of those wind up at "we need mass scale mind control". no, i'll go look for it
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Replying to @ClassFirster @willshetterly
yeah, i found it. i was basically like, "wow, Malthusianism in 2018... that's... special"
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I read selfishness, apathy, and greed a bit differently. Stress reactions look like those things. If you want the common citizen to lift his/her head up and look to the future, you must reduce their stress level. And that, we do have some ideas about how to accomplish.
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Agreed. My point is only that stress encourages short term thinking, and that stress on the poor and middle-class is both chronic and increasing. If people are going to think and act long term, they need the sort of mental space to support that.
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Replying to @SaintTzu @willshetterly
green authoritarianism requires that one think in the kind of long term that's bounded by a small number of human lifetimes. if you actually think long term, you realize that sustainability, like survival, is a goal you can only fail at
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no, i'm arguing that survival is temporary and only good insofar as it allows you to pursue goals that you can succeed at, which means that survival (and sustainability) should not be granted infinite value weight in decisionmaking
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