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We are in a dystopia, it's just far more boring and disjointed than what we read about.
by rublev 9y ago
We are in a dystopia, it's just far more boring and disjointed than what we read about.
- eli 9y agoDystopia is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed?
- colbyh 9y agoeventually consistent dystopias as a service
- jjawssd 9y agoBrilliant. Also known as globalism.
- noobiemcfoob 9y agoEveryone is in one bubble or another.
- criddell 9y agoYou think life is more unpleasant now than 100, 1000, or 10000 years ago? I don't think I'd want to live in any of those eras if given the choice.
- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y agoLife wasn't unpleasant before modern technology. You might as well say life was in black and white before the invention of the color photograph. Fun for me sometimes consisted of just a stick and a rock or a stick and my dog. The first industrial revolution initially lowered the quality of life and contentment for workers It'd take you less than a month to adapt if there were no time machine.
- criddell 9y agoCompared to today, I'd say life was indeed unpleasant. Just being free of Polio makes a gigantic difference. The opportunities I have for travel, education, healthcare, access to arts, and other experiences are far greater than my ancestors had. The opportunities my daughters have are so much greater than even my grandmother had. I wouldn't give any of it up.
- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago> The opportunities I have for travel, education, healthcare, access to arts, and other experiences are far greater than my ancestors had. The opportunities my daughters have are so much greater than even my grandmother had. I wouldn't give any of it up. Within a month you'd be over it. It's surprising how well humans adapt to their situation
- criddell 9y agoSo I presume you are doing fine living in today's dystopia.
- brewdad 9y agoGiven his username, I'd say he's found a way to cope.
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- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y agoEven if you had polio, most people find a way to still find joy in life after coming to grips with the disease. We had a president who had polio. Stephen Hawking's debilitating illness doesn't stop him. He still finds joy in life and has a happy, successful marriage in addition to being the world's preeminent physicist. This may sound weird, but I kind of dreamed of living in a dystopia. I read of a lot of Gibson and Stephenson as a kid. Utopias like heaven frankly sounds kind of boring...no challenges or struggles to overcome or face.
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- s73ver 9y agoI think that kind of comparison is just silly.
- root_axis 9y agoThe entirety of human history can be accurately described as dystopian, and it has been much worse in the past than it is today, particularly for the demographic of this forum (i.e. affluent software engineers)
- rublev 9y agoThe present age is one of understanding, of reflection, devoid of passion, an age which flies into enthusiasm for a moment only to decline back into indolence. Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so deliberately, that he kills himself with thinking -- one could barely call it suicide since it is thinking which takes his life. He does not kill himself with deliberation but rather kills himself because of deliberation. One can't really prosecute this generation, for its art, its understanding, its virtuosity and good sense lies in reaching a judgment or a decision, not in taking action.
- bitJericho 9y agoI'm gong to have to think on this...
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