That's the lie. Wanting is not greed. Wanting is only greed when the prize is intractably zero-sum, and such prizes evaporate as humanity casts off its self-loathing & gradually understands itself in the context of its own extraordinary generative powerhttps://twitter.com/mattlarraz/status/1108766914950512640 …
-
-
Show this thread
-
The devil's name is Pessimism, and he's taking names. The bargain is disempowerment for entitlement. Just don't want too much. Stay in your lane, like everyone else. It's only fair. If you defect, do you think anyone will help you? You're weak and the woods are full of monsterspic.twitter.com/KVEMFs8rTH
Show this thread -
It's too bad that the Harry Potter franchise went a bit off the rails, because the Obscurial concept is brilliant https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Obscurial pic.twitter.com/bESLZagXnT
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
“Greed works” -Gecko
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
To be fair, those who *want* to bring about the shame of others for wanting things perhaps owe the rest of us an apology
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Yeah, don't apologize. But it's reasonable to question whether all the gripping and grasping one does is the most direct route to happiness and fulfillment. (Not sure about the "integral to the grand human project" stuff - sounds keen but unclear what it means practically.)
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
i think the problem is that people want (and receive) pointless, frivolous shit that damages the world and makes the "grand human project" much more difficult to achieve
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
God yeah, 90s pop environmentalism was largely 'use less X and feel morally superior about it). I still have trouble using paper towels. That said, wanting is often a wasting memetic desire whose distraction from more permanent goals is the issue, not the externalities.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I'll welcome the wanting, the materialism, the greed any day. That I understand, it's rational. But not by those who seek it parasitically.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
We're all sentient beings stuck in ape bodies. Who can say what we might become when our "generative power" gives us the tech to change our preferences (including wants). It is totally unclear to me which set of these common platitudes maps onto a future that is "good".
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.