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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Replying to @vgr @NickPinkston
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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Replying to @NickPinkston @vgr
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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Replying to @NickPinkston
I don’t think culture changes. It’s just that old culture people die and new generation anchors on a new era of defaults. The actual gun-like object in today’s world is the phone. You can cause social death with a video and a social media account and it’s totally legal.
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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @NickPinkston
I use the Douglas Adams definitionpic.twitter.com/SWnbHBXdb9
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Replying to @vgr
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 don’t 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 —> Organization Man —> hippies —> civil rights. I’m a pretty strong tech determinist.
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On this topic, do you know any business cultural histories worth checking out? Like a survey from early mercantilism to today.
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This is the closest I’ve read for the US.https://www.amazon.com/Land-Promise-Economic-History-United/dp/0061834815 …
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Nice - I liked American Genesis for a similar take:https://www.amazon.com/American-Genesis-Invention-Technological-Enthusiasm/dp/0670814784/ …
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