I’ve never heard of the term Edenizing until now. Sounds nice, I’ll start researching!

Nice! I wonder if they plan to integrate Pixelfed with Loops so they can work as one app - replace the Instagram/Reels combo

Very good point!

Thanks for the insight and the video :)

Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for this!

I’m not sure how useful this exercise is, but I like to boil things down to the basic “cavepeople fighting for survival scenario”.

In this scenario, art is irrelevant. So are any politicians that don’t offer immediate results such as more food or more water.

What matters is survival by means of effectively allocating resources and defending those resources. This is where ambition comes in.

These drives don’t go away when survival is no longer at risk. They are inherent to our being because they ensure our survival. Unfortunately, we also love excess.

I fear the current system exists because our nature has resulted in it existing.

I am unfamiliar with the potlatch system, so please forgive me if I am misunderstanding it, but I would guess that the fact it is no longer around and capitalism is proves that it is not a viable long term solution that humans would gravitate towards.

I fear that eventually someone in the system would think “those people who are giving away their stuff are gaining social approval, sure, but at the end of the day I have all of my resources and can use them to accumulate more, and then social approval will be irrelevant because I will own all of the wealth”

Admittedly I need to learn more about degrowth. However, I feel GDP is just a manifestation of multiple cases of personal ambition.

Let’s say we all worked to the point that we had equal, abundant luxuries. Surely at this point we are happy and need no more? Unfortunately I think this is not the case. If a person or a group identifies a route to greater success, or dominion over others, it’s likely they will take it, just for the sake of being more powerful.

Then apply this not just to the individual, but to the group, and then to the nation.

Very interesting discussion, thanks both!

Thank you for the explanation, I need to look at the ideas more closely and understand the differences between them.

I do find it strange that these network states don’t explain how classic issues like climate change or equality would come into play. In fact, it’s funny that the Network State book doesn’t acknowledge what happens to differently abled or disadvantaged individuals. I guess the easy answer is that they simply don’t care!

I’ve heard of this author, thanks for the recommendation!

Thank you for the recommendation! I will check it out

The irony of using an AI generated image for this post…

AI imagery makes any article look cheaper in my view, I am more inclined to “judge the book by its cover”.

Why would you slap something so lazy on top of a piece of writing you (assuming it isn’t also written by AI) put time and effort into?