Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
“The truth is that many of the qualities we admire in human beings can only function in opposition to some kind of disaster, pain, or difficulty; but the tendency of mechanical progress is to eliminate disaster, pain, and difficulty” —George “Fuck Technology” Orwell What’s your gut reaction?
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Alditrus
@alditrus
Fair assessment. We do have a tendency as humans to get rid of hardship as much as possible. In doing so however, we end up creating new hardships (fossil fuel energy -> climate change, social media -> polarization and coordination failure) so I feel like it balances itself out.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Then my next question is… Why work to progress at all if we are problem neutral on outcomes?
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