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If I had a dollar for every time I've seen someone embrace cyberpunk aesthetics while misunderstanding its ethos, I'd have enough money to buy my favorite socia

• wwweston 2y ago
  But would you have enough to buy your favorite society and run it into the ground? Re: embracing aesthetics while misunderstanding ethos - I've noticed this about religion too. There is frequently a divide between subscription to deep ethos and social aesthetics and the latter often seems more popular. This is especially puzzling to me with Christianity considering that a fair bit of the New Testament (and some of the Old) appears to be a criticism of exactly this problem and attempts to transcend it. It might be that style over substance is a long-running human problem.
  • tbrownaw 2y ago
    > It might be that style over substance is a long-running human problem. Standardization is useful for scaling.
    • CMCDragonkai 2y ago
      Understanding the ethos isn't necessary for reproducing behaviour. Someone has already worked out the why, just do what they tell you do.
  • Philpax 2y ago
    > But would you have enough to buy your favorite society and run it into the ground? If you pull it off right, you can get a 2-for-1 deal on the social network and parlay the result of your ketamine bender into a role as Shadow President.
  • gnuser 2y ago
    I’m taking it meta. Not only am I properly embracing high-tech, low-life in game world, my design is of a metaverse preemptively designed to learn the lessons to avoid a corporate dominated abusive version.