no it's not... because cultural investment tends to be along highly tribal lines and is actually a more natural zero-sum
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it is and isn't... there is no generic 'human' culture. Only tribal. That's why culture is a weaker force than tech.
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@dougvk starving children: how do you keep talking about us in the third person and not recognize where the problem lies? -
"stop starvin' Marvin, that's a bad starvin' Marvin"
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subscription fee to their economy.
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Me: Why'd I buy lunch out for $15 when my city is crawling with homeless.
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Either/or provocations r red herrings. For escape velocity out of the same old thought bubble try Negarestani: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/52/59920/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-i-human/ …
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In 1970, Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger at NASA wrote a great letter, "Why Explore Space", to a nun in Africa: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html …
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