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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dusan
@ds8
- yes, people are the best versions of themselves in these conditions - yes, the technology wants to eliminate them - but instead it causes a whole lot of side effects that promote them it's our sisyphean pursuit to solve problems and create more in the process
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
So why progress at all?
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