I will admit I hate doing handyman shit now. Used to be proud to be able to do basic stuff as a teenager but jeez it’s high effort, low (psychological) reward. I’d get bored to tears if I had to do full time handyman work like minor maintenance and repairs in a building all day.
I think the eloi/morlock thing is about class and status really,not epistemology. Going abstract is not the same as going self-indulgent/hedonistic.
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Oh interesting! I read the self-indulgence as more of an asymptotic consequence of consuming abstraction without engaging its production. As needs and desires are abstracted away, we consume more of them. Social construction of our relationship to abstractions is independent.
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cf. https://danwang.co/definite-optimism-as-human-capital/ … or http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1973_tools_for_convivality.html … (I may not be remembering enough details about the Eloi and Morlock’s history in prticular though, for this analogy. It’s been awhile!)pic.twitter.com/I9H1tYbywG
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