It reminded me for the book "The Unaccountability Machine" by Dan Davies
https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1ssv55y/the_unaccoun...
We've made the world too complicated
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Re: We've made the world too complicated
#302>> I've realized this article is slightly naïve.
Yes. Modern writers think the world we percieve today is somehow more complicated than it was in the past. It is not. The complexity of the world is a function of human thought. When the world appears simple, humanity finds and invents complexity. The past was not simple. It only appears that way when we forget the various invented complexities. Think our schedules are complex? Look into how complicated it was for a roman to specify a paticular day of the year. Look into how many saints and feast days dotted the midieval christian calender. Think modern politics complex? Try organizing a wedding or even a family dinner in a world where invitations travel by horseback.
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#303be the change you want to see. great journeys start with a single step!
watching hypernormalisation u are only digging the hole you are in deeper.
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#304> The moment I walk through my door I'm in a zoning area on a city-owned sidewalk, flanked by ugly metallic monsters, floating through a sea of strangers.
Moving to a village in the countryside could solve that. Might reduce complexity too. I'm not saying it's better, but a might be a solution for this problem.
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#305> I used to want to do many things. Make great art, build great machines, solve important issues. Maybe our greatest gift to the world is to do as little as possible. To look at the birds, feel the wind and the water in our own hands, and ... nothing more. Eat when we are hungry, laugh when we are happy, cry when we are empty. And maybe that is the greatest gift to ourselves as well.
This is not always true, it depends on who you are. If you are an employee at Meta, or work for Philip Morris, you'd certainly do more good for the world by doing almost nothing, staying home doing nothing would be more moral compared to going to work everyday. Not so for doctors, nurses, teachers, and many other professions.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have to stretch the meaning of words in order to try to paint the present as comparable to the past, you've already lost the argument. I'm sorry but an statement like: >There is nothing that I can feed my children without worrying how many poisons and microplastics or some endocrine disrupting shit it contains. Is an obscene display of ignorance. Do you know what dysentery is? Do you have any idea of the immen…
What? we don't have sickness now? Or an ever increasing amount of sickness? We now have kids with diabetes now! Childhood cancer anyone? We don't have Dysentry for kids, but we have diabetes, and cancer for them now. They can now happily live a 100 years in a hospital! Congratulations! What a win!
Grab a coin right now, try to call the result. If you fail, your child dies before age 10.
That was REALITY in the XII century. If you like that better by all means, contact a therapist as soon as possible.
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#308I agree with the sentiment. The devil is in the details.
Or the way I see it: The devil hides in the details.
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have to stretch the meaning of words in order to try to paint the present as comparable to the past, you've already lost the argument. I'm sorry but an statement like: >There is nothing that I can feed my children without worrying how many poisons and microplastics or some endocrine disrupting shit it contains. Is an obscene display of ignorance. Do you know what dysentery is? Do you have any idea of the immen…
What? we don't have sickness now? Or an ever increasing amount of sickness? We now have kids with diabetes now! Childhood cancer anyone? We don't have Dysentry for kids, but we have diabetes, and cancer for them now. They can now happily live a 100 years in a hospital! Congratulations! What a win!
You are still stretching, nobody is claiming suffering doesn't exist.
But to compare modern medical care and nutrition to even 100-200 years ago and say it was better in the past is quite... insane.
You can't cherrypick specific problems now and then compare to the entire existence in whatever before times you think were better.
To put it another way... I would easily trade being below average income/class now, to top 1% 200 years ago every single time.
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#310Ted Kaczynski had a point...