I found myself at an anti-gun group one time, and I was like "I'm probably the only here who owns an AR-15" and went on to describe the actual views of pro-gun people but translated into a US liberal language.
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When I get down to it, I think it's fully a cultural tell like you're comparing to India/cows. Maybe it's like agnostics who still pray sometimes, I still like knowing that I have personal defensive capability.
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Exactly. Similarly I've escaped pretty much every other aspect of Indian culture except vegetarianism, and that behavior I've moved to an alternative basis of simply being concerned about animal welfare, rather than uncritical acceptance of religious-meat-taboo family background.
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Yea totally. That's a good transformation. It's funny because my only equivalent is telling anti-gun people how to regulate guns without triggering the gun culture, but it's likely that time/demographics alone will achieve that end before we convince the gun folks.
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That's generally how these things work. Like being gay went from being beyond the pale to basically "yeah whatever" except for the remaining religious fundamentalists who actually care (and those who pretend to care to pander to them). Generational effect.
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Cars are a good other example. I only knew how to drive stick when I came here and had to learn automatic. Then I forgot stick. Then after uber and moving to urban core I basically stopped driving unless I have to... don't enjoy it. Gen Z doesn't even want to get licenses.
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Yea, it's funny. In some ways I feel innovative or even avant-garde, and other ways it's like "dude you're a cis straight white dude who does manufacturing companies and still likes neoliberal globalism" Too retro?
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My assumption is that cultural change is the true gating factor, so for those of us accelerationists, we seemingly need to figure out how to increase societal open mindedness to accelerate the pace of change. I'm hoping psychedelics help :D
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I donβt think culture changes. Itβs just that old culture people die and new generation anchors on a new era of defaults. The actual gun-like object in todayβs world is the phone. You can cause social death with a video and a social media account and itβs totally legal.
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A given culture definitely changes over time unless you have a very different definition of culture or change. Can you elaborate?
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Yea that's a piece of culture, but tech and even our culture's response to tech != culture. For instance, changing attitudes toward civil rights isn't really that related to tech at all.
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Hmm I donβt know. I think of it as part of the response to the military-industrial complex of the 50s, which was primarily a post-ww2 tech based forcing function. Cold War tech scene β> Organization Man β> hippies β> civil rights. Iβm a pretty strong tech determinist.
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