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Woah woah easy there pardner

• rektide 6y ago
  That is what I continually want to ask of the world, some easiness. But the din & the stink persists, the civil world is continually menaced by arrogant loud persistent forces, & it feels like we have so little defense, so few a ways to cry out & beg for peace. Competition and greed root so much more easily, require so much less nutrients to develop & spread. Nothing will stop NFTs. Sure enough, mankind is generating a new enduring upward-spiralling mania, a new way to squabble, inventing scarcity so that some might profit. Just one of a long long series of there being so little means to ask for a cessation in society, there being no means to slow the gathering of war-wagons & takers. It's techno-mysticism. There's no more value here than a credits page, where you give thanks to your backers, your supporters. Or dedicate a piece of work to someone. But it's dressed up as something fancy, understanding slightly out of reach. The inability to pinpoint it's value is itself the core value, an esoteric tapping into something that feels bigger than us. It's a play into our emotions, into those steep undercurrents of desire & control. The logos is not here, the ethos is largely negative, and I am left with only a pathos for the poor world, subject to this artful hackery re-imposing the zero-sum upon the world by a sad malappropriation of the digital.