TheThrillOfTime

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Society doesn't prioritize knowledge for it's own sake. It prioritizes making money. If society was different, more people could pursue hard sciences.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Ok but that's a reductive view of human beings. Average MAGA folks are uneducated and propagandized, but they aren't evil and viewing them as such feeds into the culture war.

You need to construct a vision of society that allows both to succeed. Everyone is struggling these days and you need to construct a society that values all people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This is some of the coolest stuff you could ever learn

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I've been reading Dune so I don't have to read the news

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I just throw my hands up and think "if I need to remember it, something will remind me, hopefully before it's not too late"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

No I guess not. I guess we gotta work on that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Where's a good place to buy books from not Amazon?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

May future generations forgive us

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Pretty crazy the US is dismantling it's apparatus for controlling the world by itself. The Soviet Union could only dream of this month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Is the direction "into the gutter"?

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