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Title text: Have you noticed how effective San Francisco is at producing ways to drop out of reality through technology? |
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- How do you explain the "axial age"? How come humans were around for millennia, then all the sudden in just a few centuries you get socrates, buddha, laozi, confucius, mahavira, zoroaster, plato, aristotle, pythagoras.. Almost all modern religious and philosophical traditions come about in like two historical seconds
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- Yeah, that happens right at the moment when urbanization gets rapid
- Death, pain, hatred... these things can be borne without an entire school of thought to make sense of them. Know what can't be? Neighbors.
- Urbanized societies are more productive and creative, but having four roommates, none of whom clean the common area ever cannot be tolerated without a powerful ideological movement tended by thousands of theorists.
- So, buddhists say there's no actual self to get annoyed at having to clean half-empty bottles off the broken coffee-table. Confucius tells you to cultivate self-control daoists say not to struggle against what happens naturally. Jainists say no violence. Platonists say anger comes from ignorance!
- Why do you think it took further centuries and the appearance in the flesh of god himself to plead with people just to "love thy neighbor?
- Why do you think even two millennia later, sartre is saying cenfer cest les autres. This is a guy who thinks life has no inherent meaning, and he's still focused on how annoying other people are!
- So why is modern hyper-urban society getting less religious and less philosophical?
- Did you know that alcohol production became inexpensive in the 19th century?
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- Thou shalt clean thy shit from the common area!
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