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Axial
Have you noticed how effective San Francisco is at producing ways to drop out of reality through technology?
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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