anyone who thinks the world is *completely* more terrible than the past just ain’t gonna view *any* present-circumstance sincerely
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the problem of survival has a *bunch* of technology accumulated around it- i think a (benevolent) factor here is a tech-fetish larp impulse (that i share) but to assert that “industrial society” is an unalloyed evil is taking it too far
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It's not an unalloyed evil which is why it's problematic. It is destructive to individual happiness and sense of felt meaning, and may result in our extinction. But... no one wants to starve or watch their children die of preventable diseases.
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