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I've seen this movie, I don't want that life

by flareback 4y ago

xjwm 4y ago
Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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flavius29663 4y ago
you know, some people were really squeamish about eating aquatic roaches, and they were reserved for penal colonies...but over time the public at large started to love them, they also gave them better names, like "crabs" and "lobsters".
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- hunterb123 4y ago
  anyone can eat algae if they want to, most don't want to. some people do want to eat crab and lobsters, some don't. it's not a naming issue or a perception issue, it's a choice issue.
  - flavius29663 4y ago
    I don't think anyone is saying to not eat what you want anymore, it's about having another option.
    - hunterb123 4y ago
      The entire piece is about guilt tripping the reader into eating algae under the threat of climate change. The title is called "Is it time to start eating algae?" even... The answer to the title is no, unless you want to, which you can already. If it was about another option it would be a recipe article, not a climate change article.
BlueTemplar 4y ago
"[...] The earth hath then become small, and on it there hoppeth the last man who maketh everything small. His species is ineradicable like that of the ground-flea; the last man liveth longest. "We have discovered happiness"—say the last men, and blink thereby. They have left the regions where it is hard to live; for they need warmth. One still loveth one's neighbour and rubbeth against him; for one needeth warmth. Turning ill and being distrustful, they consider sinful: they walk warily. He is a fool who still stumbleth over stones or men! A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death. One still worketh, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one. One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome. No shepherd, and one herd! Every one wanteth the same; every one is equal: he who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse. "Formerly all the world was insane,"—say the subtlest of them, and blink thereby. [...]" (Not sure that blowing up the biosphere, literally so when considering geological timescales, is a better alternative...)
- squidlogic 4y ago
  For anyone curious, this excerpt is by Nietschze in Thus spake Zarathustra.

I've seen this movie, I don't want that life

xjwm 4y ago

Tuesday is Soylent Green day.

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flavius29663 4y ago

you know, some people were really squeamish about eating aquatic roaches, and they were reserved for penal colonies...but over time the public at large started to love them, they also gave them better names, like "crabs" and "lobsters".

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hunterb123 4y ago
anyone can eat algae if they want to, most don't want to. some people do want to eat crab and lobsters, some don't. it's not a naming issue or a perception issue, it's a choice issue.
- flavius29663 4y ago
  I don't think anyone is saying to not eat what you want anymore, it's about having another option.
  - hunterb123 4y ago
    The entire piece is about guilt tripping the reader into eating algae under the threat of climate change. The title is called "Is it time to start eating algae?" even... The answer to the title is no, unless you want to, which you can already. If it was about another option it would be a recipe article, not a climate change article.

BlueTemplar 4y ago

"[...] The earth hath then become small, and on it there hoppeth the last man who maketh everything small. His species is ineradicable like that of the ground-flea; the last man liveth longest. "We have discovered happiness"—say the last men, and blink thereby. They have left the regions where it is hard to live; for they need warmth. One still loveth one's neighbour and rubbeth against him; for one needeth warmth. Turning ill and being distrustful, they consider sinful: they walk warily. He is a fool who still stumbleth over stones or men! A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death. One still worketh, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one. One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome. No shepherd, and one herd! Every one wanteth the same; every one is equal: he who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse. "Formerly all the world was insane,"—say the subtlest of them, and blink thereby. [...]" (Not sure that blowing up the biosphere, literally so when considering geological timescales, is a better alternative...)

squidlogic 4y ago
For anyone curious, this excerpt is by Nietschze in Thus spake Zarathustra.