• Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I hate how AnPrim as an axiom equates Technology/Civilization with Capitalism and then goes: See?! Bad!! Like... Yea, Capitalist Technology and Civilization is inherently exploitative, but social cooperation is the most human thing ever and literally what made us have these big thinky sponges in the first place; why not use those to build better Technology and Civilization? AnPrim seems inherently defeatist in that way

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Anprim sounds like a boomer strawman against hippies "oh so you want everyone to live in huts without technology growing vegetables"

      Source: my boomer dad

    • CatherineTheSoSo [any]
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      4 years ago

      Anticivs aren't against human cooperation, they are against civilization. That's like saying socialists are against people freely cooperating and exchanging things which is also a very human thing.

      It is kinda defeatist but kinda in a same way socialism is. "Why do need bloody revolutions, revolutionary terror and radical change in society? Can't we just tinker with policy until we have good non-crony capitalism that provides prosperity for everyone while keeping all the liberal freedoms we've come to enjoy, like right to property..."