this is a fun story but it wont save u economists cant do shit I mean dont get me wrong I'm sure there are disproportionate quantities of weed and sex toys consumer by this tribe but naw theres no system people do this to themselves https://twitter.com/gaitanalyst/status/1147206414210936833 …
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having a villain is nice because you know if you can beat people or ideas to death then you win and because its exculpatory "NO Cassius the fault IS in those stars and if we can just blow them up all will be well again"
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People probably massively underestimate the path dependency of society
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Things will never be as they were Everyone is fighting over scraps of the past Possibly because no one has a vision of the future
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Probably can't blame people for this Vision for the future was easy when it was "feed our kids" and "stop that other tribe from killing us" But we've solved all that so what's left as an animating dream? Just abstractions I guess
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Most of this thread is not very good but this seems likely to be correcthttps://twitter.com/Rahul_Ramc/status/1142725769413586944?s=19 …
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Rahul Ramchandani @Rahul_RamcWhat's worse than welfare? The real concern is much more psychological. Namely: human beings want much richer social lives than they can maintain under strict market conditions, and much of the reaction against market societies comes from that. Read more to find out. pic.twitter.com/pHV7y68wBzShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 8 likesShow this thread -
People do seem to have relatively sterile lives today compared to what they would have endured earlier I can imagine actually that even the irritating parts of a more Kegan 3 social life are healthful in a hormetic sort of way
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idk YOU figure out the decay of civilization at 3am someones gotta do it
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Replying to @PontiacGunfire
Tangentially interesting-- So ya got your praxeology and your reflexive behavior but I actually got my start in behavioral ecology which is sort of a rich blend of the two I wonder if there's some human application I should probably read Christopher Alexander
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