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The Global Warming one was weak. The inherent contradiction in modern life is that you participate in the economy as part of "modern life". But that is unquest
by AtlasBarfed 5y ago
The Global Warming one was weak. The inherent contradiction in modern life is that you participate in the economy as part of "modern life".
But that is unquestionably leading to a future such that if this were coalesced to a single (rational) person and telling them they will certainly get painful, awful cancer if they do X anymore that any sane person will stop doing X.
You can't change the sheer inertia, and even if you did, there is a powerful set of people (this would be, say, the part of the brain addicted to a drug that will kill you with painful awful cancer) whose influence over society is far more powerful.
So you either become an "edgelord" and pick rational sanity but everyday life is so bad it is functionally insane, or you go along with the flow and pick rational insanity, but everyday life is a lot better and therefore really the sane choice.