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20s are roaring (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

– George Santayana,

The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

History doesn't repeat but it sure as shit rhymes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Battles never end, they just get hushed up. Dystopian tactics; throw a blanket over it and pretend it doesn't exist because society is perfect for the rich and the powerful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And they continue to forget it's all a numbers game and we outnumber them by a magnitude. Tl'dr they're fucked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But that's where complacency and escapism becomes a large tool against the numbers. Its much too hard to get up and revolt when their favorite show is going to be on at 8 or X streaming service got a new movie. Only a fraction get up to protest when the rest sit back back and mumble under their breaths to their screens.

We need a major fuckup to get them off their couches, you know, something like policing the internet, or crashing the market and causing disgusting inflation rates. Oh wait. Its a shame that we've waited until things got this bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Agree. People were so concerned about 1984 that they didn't see Brave New World creeping up on us.

How you crack the complacency is beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Cracking the code is:

if (complacency > annoyances) {
  sleep();
} else {
  riot();
}

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People are the worst. Agriculture was a mistake. If I have a time machine I'd go back and kick that fucker tiktaalik back into the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure you're joking, but actually I'm reading a very interesting book about this topic called "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity."

It's really concerned with freedom, and disputes the idea that the lack thereof is inherently tied to agriculture.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Agriculture made more humans. More humans is always trouble.

(But it is a really incredible book, as are all of Graeber's work. If you like it you should read Debt: The First 5,000 Years)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

"This is not good! Worlds are colliding! George is getting upset!"

-George Costanza

Seinfeld "The Pool Guy" - Season 7, Episode 8 (1995)