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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Ben
@benersing
That's often the goal of mechanical progress, seldom the result. It just changes the nature of disaster, pain and difficulty.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
So why then should we imagine Sisyphus happy, my friend
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Ben
@benersing
We don't have to. That's only one perspective; there are others.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
So is it fair to say you don’t think there is a best perspective?
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