I think our lives are probably defined far more, actually, by technological interfaces than money. And the truth is probably that there is always a trade-off between things. You build more housing, you wreck good views. You need the economy to grow, prices inflate. Etc. In a world with finite...
An intercontinental car balloon malfunction, I see. All joking aside, this is why I was ranting about wanting to you know, cool international relations over the past year. I don't like the world's authoritarians, but it is far more strategic to cool relations. This is why. But then, if I argue...
I reference some in my thread on the Didache, that seem relevant. But I guess my question is, did the ancient people back then think of a slave like we think of it? In some cases certainly, but did they all have a lack of rights, and no ability to work their way from out? Granted that is bad as well
One wonders though, what the political implications would be of there being a 'replicator.' (that was the thing that made free food) One wonders if a political faction of some kind, would want to regulate it anyway, if it existed.
Again, I understand your point of view. And if may speculate further, correct me if I'm incorrect, I think I understand what kind of Christianity you like: which is actually the most authentic kind - the doom-pilled Jesus was in fact, a brute realist about the fatality of material conditions...
What else is, or was, there? It's actually all just different gradations of capitalism. That's all there ever was, throughout history. It's a requirement of the use of non-free material resources. As long as resources are finite, someone will allocate them. Now I would like to see an up-scaled...
Well, actually scrap my whole idea. I'm not even sure if I like it anyway. I don't know what the solution is. But to me, I don't believe in just stopping to live within the doom mindset. Analysis of serious problems is important. But I think that positive solutions should always follow the...
I don't know, but I only got like 5 or 6 hours a day this week of sleep.. I figure it might have something to do with how the day length is shifting or something. Just gotta deal with it
Hey I get it, bud. I've spent most of my life surrounded by drinkers, and I had a cousin, and a friend, die of heroin overdoses. I have read like 5 books on homelessness. My query here, is just to wonder if an alternative, but functional mode of society would work for these people. Now there was...
I don't think a third-person view from a car is especially revealing, myself. It's controversial, but there a few big youtube channels dedicated to actually interviewing the homeless, and a common thread in those videos, seems to be that people actually do have some awareness of what they are...
Well I think you have to slow down a little bit here, you are talking about a possible goal and a starting point. The whole idea of a monastery type system, I think, was that belief in god(s), spirituality, or higher sources etc. was emergent from the kind of lifestyle they went to have. The...
Ok, but again, and I don't want to come off as ignorant about their hardship, but they did live in a totally different kind of 'social paradigm,' where I think that there was no notion of any kind of social credit score, or analysis of individual history, in order for social functionality to...
Well, I think maybe younger people can have more inner-fire, which can make them seem more erratic at times, but with proper training, minus spite from their elders, they can become functional. My dad told me a weird story about my grandfather the other week, who passed when I was like 11. It...
There's two sides to the story man. If you want to say that about the younger generation, you can, but as someone in my mid-thirties, I don't exactly have glowing reviews of the people 20 or 30 years older than me, than I've had to work with. Granted, I didn't start out as a good worker, but the...
I don't know, but the most moving thing I read last year, would have to be meditations by marcus aurelius. I know that the text has kind of made its way into modern pop culture, but it still is actually really good. And in that text, there really is a strong sense of western spirituality, before...
I think doing youtube podcasts would work. Can any of you hold a good unwritten conversation? All you'd need is someone who could do that, and then you contact scholars etc. Or even just talk to people here, if they'd want that.