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Depending on your assessment of society, being merely useless isn't good enough. If you estimate society to be generally harmful (whether through wars, environ
by StanislavPetrov 8y ago
Depending on your assessment of society, being merely useless isn't good enough. If you estimate society to be generally harmful (whether through wars, environmental destruction, causing mass-exinction, ect), then its morally desirable to be parasitic and drain some of the "power" of society from engaging in harm-producing activities.
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- obelix_ 8y agoWow that's some pretty imaginative thinking. Have you tried that on your family?
- StanislavPetrov 8y agoI'm not supported by my family (or anyone else). If, however, I was supported by my family, and they were a bunch of serial killers who used their money and power to murder people, then it would be morally desirable to drain them of their resources and deprive them of their ability to kill and slaughter.
- goldenkey 8y agoWouldn't it be more morally desirable to change their use of resources to saving stray dogs or well..something with a positive context? Why throw work away when it can be used for positive acts instead? Transformation over destruction. A moral imperative
- plankers 8y agoWhy throw work away trying to reform serial killers? They clearly want to kill people.
- 5DFractalTetris 8y agoLabor-driven ideologies are poisonous, they require that you consider another person as useful, therefore exploitable, to some end not their own; then, to call some work positive, some negative, as the ideology sees fit. Instead, uselessness and leisure must be engineered to nullify with machine-like precision, the notions that labor is a commodity with any attached value and that the imposition of any belief, through labor or violence, has any corresponding uselessness or usefulness. Distraction must be perfected in our lifetime. A person born in 2050 should be dazzled by endless fireworks displays and snackfoods until at last they are disintegrated by the simple side-effects of their own cellular respiration. Indeed, everything recognizable as human being, or a soul, or a similar metaphor for the idea of the self, owes it to all other such entities that it wishes for them nothing but complete and lifelong sensory saturation with mutually harmless novelties and comforts. This is the core manifestation of self-preservation of the social animal.
- plankers 8y agoI have. They don't like it, which suits me fine. Personally, bitcoin has been wonderful in providing the financial means to leech off the system.
- kuroguro 8y agoHahaha, I'm framing that and putting it on my wall!
- truculation 8y agoNo doubt, but consider that some people will then become cynical about society in order to become freeloaders. (Rather as in Upton Sinclair's famous quote: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!')
- StanislavPetrov 8y agoIf history has taught us anything, its that nobody needs a philosophical rationale to become a freeloader.
- truculation 8y agoIt's a reason why some people become social cynics, I think, and this reason is represented in their brains. However they may not be able to articulate it, partly because they need to see themselves (and for others to see them) as good people. Indeed the strategy depends on it.
- js2 8y agoThe Dude abides.
- StanislavPetrov 8y agohttps://ibb.co/gFOG1J https://ibb.co/gFOG1J
- trophycase 8y agoThis is true, but there is even debate about what can be considered harm producing. Boudrillard, for example, considers terrorism as not contributing to this cause, as terrorism only seeks to strengthen the systems of control (think: Patriot Act after 9/11, TSA, DHS). He argues that theoretical terrorism, that is, ideas that dismantle our abstract cultural structures, to be our only option.