What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools
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Those who are convinced that there is more to things spend their time chasing it and not finding it often as not, and those who are convinced there isn't find themselves frustrated at the abyss. When you read books about a utopia without material demands on our time, the key aspect seems to be how nobody is particularly bereft, only mildly discontent. The utopia we envision in other words comprises our current world, just shorn of what we’d recognise as work.
This is a fantastic post! Really thought-provoking. It makes me wonder how modern infrastructure can support the kind of tribal living people want. One difficulty with major social media services, which are supposed to help us find our tribes, is that they exert constant pressure to *expand* our connections. This makes sense for those services; more connections benefits them. And obviously we want our tribes to be flexible and expandable. But it seems difficult to form an effective tribe on Twitter, for example (which is perhaps one reason I see more and more people set up Discords).
This is a fantastic post! Really thought-provoking. It makes me wonder how modern infrastructure can support the kind of tribal living people want. One difficulty with major social media services, which are supposed to help us find our tribes, is that they exert constant pressure to *expand* our connections. This makes sense for those services; more connections benefits them. And obviously we want our tribes to be flexible and expandable. But it seems difficult to form an effective tribe on Twitter, for example (which is perhaps one reason I see more and more people set up Discords).