We truly have a lot of work to do — under the shadow of an unprecedented, almost inconceivable capacity for destruction. I'm deeply frustrated with the white-male-shame complex because the human project can't afford this many people removing themselves from the game to navel-gaze
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I, for one, never needed anyone to make Concerned Face while asking me to recount being cat-called or groped. The Ceremony of Concern doesn't build the world I want to bring children into
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What the world needs is more competence, people unflinchingly transforming themselves into modern craftsmen, chasing the bleeding edge, building infrastructure *and* better toys, wasting very little computational power on pontification about skin tone and dangly bits.
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When a child asks "what are humans good for besides destroying the planet?" the first layer of tragedy is the evident self-loathing; the second is that Desecrator status is a subclass of Consumer. "Take less" is the message ruling the day when "create more" is what's needed.
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The biggest problem with shame culture isn't that it makes people feel bad, it's that it's anti-generative. We have got to stop issuing social currency to people who can cut a pie in fashionable proportions but couldn't bake another one to save their lives.
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