Today, the culturally set goal (via capitalism) for every human is to maximize their accumulation of capital. This goal is killing us all. If you could, somehow, set a different goal, what would it be?
This is perhaps a bit of a #SolarPunk question.
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I'm sure we can all think of something that exists today but shouldn't. Is there something that doesn't exist today that you would like to exist? If so, what is it?
A mechanism to consciously modulate dopamine and protect us from the mindhacking that is "social media" and so-called "AI".
Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
woooowwww... this: "Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not. "
Is that ever a loaded observation about the realm of urban planning/urban futures.
Luxury is maximizing time I can spend pursuing each momentary strong desire, minimizing longer lengths of time I have to spend on others' motivations in order to have access to my own.
But that is only accessible to me if accessible to all, I cannot spend my days reading stories if writers cannot write.
@johannab The whole essay is *so good* if you haven't read it. I would definitely recommend it :)
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-08-13/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/
OK, now for the hard question. What would it be like to answer these questions together as a group?
If you asked these questions to the folks who follow you, could you work together to come up with an answer? Would you be willing to get a few friends together (maybe over a drink) to talk through these and try to come up with *one* answer that everyone could agree on?
I wonder if anyone would be willing to try it as an experiment and come back with results. :)
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