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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I love nature. But one thing I am forced to admit about nature is that many of the things that make nature pleasant in practice are actually very artificial: * Clothing and equipment * Public toilets at most 1km away in city parks * Paths, trails, roads * Dangerous animals removed * Lots of active maintenance
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Nature is great. But pure "nature" is pooping in the forest with nothing to wash your hands, then fighting off a bear and then tripping over a branch and getting a wound, and three days later realizing you have a serious infection.
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Les Greys
@les
co-creation > nature (I really hesitated pressing cast)
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Nature!™
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@mk
What do you mean by active maintenance?
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clun.eth
@clun.eth
I also like the framing that human cities are a part of nature just like ant hills and beaver dams. 😊
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@wijuwiju.eth
Dosed nature without much human intrusion while keeping civilisation comforts is super nice
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@ernestkou
Sounds very obvious but surprisingly never thought of this. I guess most enjoy our perceived reality of nature, i.e. the one we manufactured to be comfortable
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https://www.buttersafe.com/2022/07/28/off-the-grid/ https://i.imgur.com/VkWiZcb.jpg
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Sounds very obvious but surprisingly never thought of this. I guess most enjoy our perceived reality of nature, i.e. the one we manufactured to be comfortable
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@dberg
“In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.” - Ed A
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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
Yes, most of the universe is impossible to experience directly and unequipped.
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Which one of these most affects the experience? I’m thinking removal of predators, but making hiking naked mandatory would be pretty entertaining too.
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@joeblau
Sounds like you love the city.
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@nix
If you are not aware of Werner Herzog, you might like his films: https://youtu.be/3xQyQnXrLb0
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Michael Pollan talks about this in one of his earlier books, "Second Nature". V interesting
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Connor McCormick
@nor
this is true as long as we view nature as just a thing that's there to serve and entertain us
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frdysk 🦠
@fufuprophet.eth
I love natural boobies
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frdysk 🦠
@fufuprophet.eth
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
Interesting perspective. Years ago, I took part in a survival course led by former special ops who fought in Afghanistan. And we were like, "Okay, let's get to the middle of the forest with just a knife." And he just laughed, saying, "Guys, at least 50% of survival success depends on the stuff you take with yourself."
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