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I really believed this argument growing up in a white, middle class household in the 1980s. I’m more skeptical now, after two decades of helping build our curre
by flatline 3y ago
I really believed this argument growing up in a white, middle class household in the 1980s. I’m more skeptical now, after two decades of helping build our current technocracy. I think there is a sweet spot between the dystopian lawlessness of prehistory and early human history, and the dystopian future of rapacious consumption and late stage capitalism.
- nine_k 3y agoIn the words "mindless consumption" the problem is not with "consumption" but with "mindless". If you ask people in the third world, they badly want and need higher levels of consumption. And they will attain it, barring some global catastrophe.