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We are entering a period of overlapping crises

30 points speckx 1 hour ago 18 comments

longitudinal93 1 hour ago | parent

"Then on the left the is a matching fantasy, we romanticism collapse, but it is not automatically progressive."

Should be "romanticise" rather than "romanticism".

nh23423fefe 49 minutes ago | parent

Literally full of spelling errors and omitted words and subject verb disagreement and awkward phrasing. To say nothing of the trash logic. Verified human everyone!

WaltPurvis 48 minutes ago | parent

That's only one of the misspellings or incorrect words in this fairly short post. There are also numerous grammatical errors. Perhaps it's intentional, to show it wasn't written by AI, but I think more likely it's just sloppy and rushed. (The thinking in the piece seems as sloppy and rushed as the writing.)

monneyboi 1 hour ago | parent

We are entering? I feel like we've been there for years.

onethought 31 minutes ago | parent

Honestly there are writings from the greeks, romans, enlightment, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s... That read just like this.

At some point, this view point, and this predicament is just "The Human Condition".[0]

[0] That's not a excuse to not try to fix the broken things around us. But perspective is important.

GolfPopper 4 minutes ago | parent

Obligatory xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1979:_History

That out of the way, I'm close to 50, and things over the last year definitely seem different in a more precarious way than anything before them. It feels closer to my memories of August 1991, or the days immediately after 9/11 or January 6th, only all the time, where I've gotten a little numb to the dissonance, but not nearly enough for it to feel close to normal. It feels like what I imagine the run-up to WWII might have felt like to those living then.

That's my perspective.

gaiagraphia 55 minutes ago | parent

Is it just me, or are the amount of hashtags quite jarring in the piece?

>But any one with any sense can see there is no #stupidindividualism exit from #climatechaos. There is no technological #dotcons platform that allows us to escape social relationships.

grebc 52 minutes ago | parent

I had trouble reading it because they kept drawing my eyes to them, so I stopped.

GaryBluto 50 minutes ago | parent

The whole thing reads like a bizarre, vaguely schizotypal manifesto, complete with it's own confusing form eccentricities.

I checked the "hashtags" link and was met with the following: "Hashtags are a critique and a rallying cry to gather round. They are the protest banners of the openweb"

Nothing says protest banner of the "openweb"(?) like a convention invented by Twitter.

Terr_ 39 minutes ago | parent

Or IRC channels.

GaryBluto 32 minutes ago | parent

You are right that hash symbols were used for IRC channels but I'm almost certain that hashtags were a Twitter invention.

baron3dl 15 minutes ago | parent

when i got to the second hashtag, i scanned the following paragraphs, saw it's littered with them, and just hit the back button.

#'s are for signaling root access, and bash comments.

edit: and also IRC channels.

bryanrasmussen 54 minutes ago | parent

I don't feel like it's AI, but I do get the feeling of reading someone dipping into the bucket of their local version of English slang, and maybe doing some context switching that they cannot handle as adeptly as could be hoped, to the detriment of the article's readability.

I suppose there are probably people out there snorting in disbelief and saying "you're one to talk", but that's how I feel.

haunter 48 minutes ago | parent

Once in a lifetime events every single year since the 2000s

tengbretson 14 minutes ago | parent

Seeing what "we" need to do to build a better future as described by an author that doesn't appear to have a wife, children or any attachment to a permanent home reads to me a lot like an offseason blog post by a Chicago Bears fan talking about what "we" need to do to get better next year.

throwaway23597 10 minutes ago | parent

"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine" - REM, 1987

The world has always been in overlapping crises, the only difference now is that it's constantly blared into your face by your pocket screen. Ignorance is bliss. Delete the news, buy index funds, and relax.