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Privacy is often inconvenient. Understanding is inconvenient.

by HKH2 4y ago

nonrandomstring 4y ago
> Privacy is often inconvenient. Understanding is inconvenient. You're so right. What else? - Safety is inconvenient - Growth is inconvenient - Success is inconvenient - Long term happiness is inconvenient We could write a very, very long list of all the good things in life and find, at root, that they are "inconvenient". That's why I consider the word convenience to be the modern form of the Greek work Thanatos, which is the "death drive" toward atrophy, stasis, forgetfulness and rigor mortis. Living is "Inconvenient", and because everything worth having costs something, convenience is "anti-life". But that's a lot of beard-stroking philosophy. A more interesting question for hackers might be: "Exactly when did we become the arse-wipers of the world, coddling everyone in "convenience" lest their delicate brows produce a bead of sweat or their minds be troubled by a moment of doubt?" Here's a quote from Digital Vegan pondering the writing of De Tocqueville: Political scientist Alexis De Toqueville writing in his 1840 Democracy in America [DeTocqueville35] questions the perils of convenient systems so perfect in their pampering and coddling that they render life pointless. Of what today we would call cybernetic governance, he writes: `` That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?''

Privacy is often inconvenient. Understanding is inconvenient.

by HKH2 4y ago

Privacy is often inconvenient. Understanding is inconvenient.

> Privacy is often inconvenient. Understanding is inconvenient. You're so right. What else? - Safety is inconvenient - Growth is inconvenient - Success is inconvenient - Long term happiness is inconvenient We could write a very, very long list of all the good things in life and find, at root, that they are "inconvenient". That's why I consider the word convenience to be the modern form of the Greek work Thanatos, which is the "death drive" toward atrophy, stasis, forgetfulness and rigor mortis. Living is "Inconvenient", and because everything worth having costs something, convenience is "anti-life". But that's a lot of beard-stroking philosophy. A more interesting question for hackers might be: "Exactly when did we become the arse-wipers of the world, coddling everyone in "convenience" lest their delicate brows produce a bead of sweat or their minds be troubled by a moment of doubt?" Here's a quote from Digital Vegan pondering the writing of De Tocqueville: Political scientist Alexis De Toqueville writing in his 1840 Democracy in America [DeTocqueville35] questions the perils of convenient systems so perfect in their pampering and coddling that they render life pointless. Of what today we would call cybernetic governance, he writes: `` That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?''