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What irks me about this (op's) line of thought is the labeling of these facts as the devil, evil, even though it's still very likely the best the humanity got t
by The_Colonel 3y ago
What irks me about this (op's) line of thought is the labeling of these facts as the devil, evil, even though it's still very likely the best the humanity got to ever experience.
Yes, the advertisers don't care one bit for the well-being of the consumers, but can you imagine a reality where they would? I don't. Calling something evil even though there's not much improvement to be made is ... needlessly negative?
- walleeee 3y agoI agree that it doesn't help to call it evil or invoke the devil. I don't agree that there's not much to improve on. > the advertisers don't care one bit for the well-being of the consumers, but can you imagine a reality where they would? Yes. Imagine a reality where we don't have anything like the advertising sector, or myopically extractive industry in general, sidestepping the whole problem. Failures of imagination seriously constrain the possibility space. Modernity's totalizing tendency ("the end of history", "the best we've ever had it", etc) is a big reason it threatens to self-terminate, I think. History is path-dependent, yes, and for all I know we do live in a block universe, but for practical purposes the future is under-determined.