yes but its easy to fall into a specific trap here which is to assume 'incentive' 'drives' 'needs' are these hard-wired things you cant transcend when really they might have been put there by the big boss manMy lofty answer is to formulate ethical approaches that speak to incentive, rather than ethical approaches that expect other incentives to yield to ethics, however obvious those ethics may be to us.
Possible to transcend them, but that requires a psychic expenditure that I would not call ordinary. Like swimming upstream. Sure, these incentives are largely socially defined, the current socially driven, but that doesn't mean it's not hard to resist.yes but its easy to fall into a specific trap here which is to assume 'incentive' 'drives' 'needs' are these hard-wired things you cant transcend when really they might have been put there by the big boss man
There's this key quote near the end of the film like, "The kinds of skills that lead men to make a fortune are often directly opposed to those which allow him to keep it."i suppose you could read barry lyndon has a cautionary tale about trying to beat the house. or about a gamblers luck always running dry
at the end. or indeed about the pitfalls and shortcomings of treating life as a game (one with prizes)
I think this is key in understanding why people feel a natural aversion to describing real life, or real life situations, as games.it allows you to cut off the acts from their larger ethical and emotional ramifications. eg you are the Sacklers and you are flooding the world with opiates
Disco Elysium looks cool. I would need a Windows bootcamp partition for a mac to play it though.@Clinamenic "Godrolls" is a great term.
I'm debating between getting a Switch and PS4 right now. Never owned a console before. But wanna start gaming. Have Disco Elysium, RDR2, MassEffect, Soma on my list from friends' recommendations. You have any thoughts or recs? Totally new to gaming.
Stan!!! 😍 If only there were more people out there who preferred perceiving to judgingI would agree with some of those points, but I see right through the dystopian spins on it. This fixation on dystopian outcomes somewhat reminds me of that quote I've seen attributed to Hegel but haven't looked into it, "Evil resides in the eyes of those who see evil everywhere."
One of the reasons I'm opposed to this "cancelled future" standpoint. It seems largely self-fulfilling to me.
Anyway, Minecraft strikes me as an exception, as an experience of more or less pure creation.
Post highlights/excerpts?I just listened to a professional dominatrix interviewed as a guest on a podcast (loosely) about architecture, and she painted an interesting picture about her line of work and that sort of milieu. It actually seems profoundly healthy in certain respects, provided the parties involved uphold a mutual respect.
i think modern life is bad and getting worse and analysing the ways in which it is bad, why it is bad, and what we might want instead all seem fairly useful tasks
Do you think this about the macro or micro scale? Big difference between "10 years ago may have been better" and "100/500/1000 years ago may have been better"I agree, but how far can we go demanding more fulfilling existences that don't comply with capitalism, without kidding ourselves? It seems like the majority of the academic left is kidding itself. My suggestion is that we reforge a notion of capitalism that takes our values into account, i.e. triple-bottom line, circular economy, "passion economy", constellation of niche content producers, etc.
She said there was this one guy who asked her to kick him in the testicles repeatedly, as a sort of joint fetish of feet and pain, two birds with one stone, etc.Post highlights/excerpts?
I have it in my top 5 alongsideits an odd film. im surprised its woops favourite of all time. its hard for me to imagine it being anyones favourite of all time. craner cant stand kubrick he says hes a fraud but i think he read your essay anyway out of comradeship
I think things are net improving. Life may have been better [qua less alienating] earlier on, but only for the parochial and enfranchised.Do you think this about the macro or micro scale? Big difference between "10 years ago may have been better" and "100/500/1000 years ago may have been better"