An under-discussed part of @FukuyamaFrancis end of history thesis is the “...and the last man” part. It’s actually the more interesting bit. The idea of “men without backs” who are comfort-seeking Eloi-like vs those who desperately seek escape from that with extreme sports etc.
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Hmm. My not-caring comes from seeing this *waves hands* coming, trying to help as an activist and politician, and failing because it's just too big. So I choose to build a bunker (emotionally, also literally) to ride out the worst. Maybe I'm just weird?
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I see this as part of my theory of the source of meaning. The one remaining src of meaning (knowledge broadly interpreted to include not just sci/tech but also eg history) remains robust and cared about by the best. The problem is srcs of meaning (ie caring) for everyone else.
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I don't know: SV puts an enormous amount of energy into comfort and convenience. If a software engineer is inconvenienced even briefly, they will found a new start up to rid the world of the thing that dared inconvenienced them: and that is called making the world a better place
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