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No, I'm well aware of those and appreciate them. There's just very few examples of anything resembling that being created today (the social and professional inc
by rglover 2y ago
No, I'm well aware of those and appreciate them. There's just very few examples of anything resembling that being created today (the social and professional incentives to do so have been phased out of the culture).
Nearly everything now is fast and cheap "money money money." We're living in a collapsing civilization. It's uncomfortable to think about, certainly, but it's a reality nonetheless.
The very values that have brought us here have been abandoned in favor of delusional thinking, greed, and shortsightedness in pursuit of ephemera like money and status. Where you do see some flicker of these values, more often than not, it's just marketing disguised as sincerity.
A negative outlook aside, I think it's very possible to do things in a way that have a time horizon of decades. I'm trying to do that with the things I'm building, but there's far less "ra ra" for that then there is for the inverse.
- tim333 2y agoAs someone who was around in the 1970s, delusional thinking, greed, and shortsightedness in pursuit of ephemera like money and status were a thing then too, if anything a bit worse. In fact Money, Money, Money was recorded in 1976 just before the Voyager launch. (https://youtu.be/ETxmCCsMoD0 https://youtu.be/ETxmCCsMoD0)
- mixmastamyk 2y agoA great piece on the time around watergate: https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergate-was-bigger-worse-and-forgotten-by-the-public/ https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergat... Corruption was in full swing and easier to hide. Dale Carnegie recently reminded me of the Teapot dome scandal, and Gordon Gekko was in the 80s.