Sometimes, you just need to wipe the drawing board clean and start over. 🤷👋 🔥

  • ganymede@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    necessary decline in our quality of life

    i’m not refuting your core premise.

    but on the note of this issue, not sure i can agree.

    have a look at this public infrastructure technology from 122 years ago:

    Youtube/Invidious

    imagine if we’d spent the last 1+¼ century collectively working towards the utopia this kind of project hinted at - instead of developing new machines to destroy?

    typically they say utopian dreams scatter in the face of increased technological awareness. have to say my experience has been the opposite.

    the more i learn about technology, the more i realise we could probably be very close to a near-utopia by now. for some suspicious reason we took a very different road, and here we are.

    • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Yeah I don’t know. Just see how the modern world is shaping society to the negative. Generation Instagram/TikTok all want to be influencers, there’s growing mental illnesses. Fertility rapidly declining (and it isn’t unfortunately all because of education). Capitalism is almost perfected abusing the dopamine system in an unhealthy way. I don’t want to be a doomer. I just don’t see where we are close to utopia. Which for me would be more sociali(sm) more community, less narcissism/egoism and more solarpunk. But right now we are on a different path. I’m happy to be proven wrong though…