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Automobilies, grocery stores, watches, central heating: these amenities also have major deskilling effects. The whole point is so you don't need the old-fashio
by Fricken 6mo ago
Automobilies, grocery stores, watches, central heating: these amenities also have major deskilling effects.
The whole point is so you don't need the old-fashioned abilities anymore. Personally I believe the hunter gatherer lifestyle is the way to go, but it's an unpopular view.
- vrganj 6mo agoOkay but if we give up critical thinking, we're nothing but slaves to the makers of thinking machines. Which I'm pretty sure is the plan, FWIW.
- Fricken 6mo agoI can't survive without the system, so I'm already a slave to it. Critical thinking skills only serve to make me feel depressed about the situation.
- epsilonic 6mo agoTed Kaczynski shared a similar view, but he would’ve added that these technological artefacts or amenities have major de-humanizing effects.
- bestconncomp 6mo ago"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." This quote from Robert A. Heinlein comes to mind