Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

I bet if you could ask dogs about the most frustrating part of being companion animals to humans specifically the dogs would point out that we have these digits that look like really fun chew toys but we humans don't let the dogs gnaw on them.

Working on a new satirical paradigm: what if,,, people countenanced moral and social questions of the highest significance,, but still act'ed like idiots?.

Maybe this is where the Arendtian analysis comes in handy? Most people experience life most of the time as animal laborans, who is immersed in the cycles of nature. Even homo faber has to gradually and incrementally strive out of a naturally-informed disposition.

As *ahem* a true elite, I am one of the zoon politikon who strikes forth into the risk and self-definition of human affairs unconditioned by nature.

It's really fucking weird talking to eco people for me. Like... Do you not realize that your subjectivity is coming from inside you? There's this special constellation of nerves and anatomy that make it possible for you to use signs and that's why we're talking. There's really nothing of truth, beauty, or justice in nature per se. It merely informs human responses that expose the freedom that they bring from within.

I just took a nature-relatedness inventory and I think that this is probably my most uncommon character trait. I have demonstrated a very very low sense of relatedness to nature. I don't have anything against it but it seems like a category error to think of nature in most of the declarations supplied on the inventory. It seems like getting weepy over neon triangles or something. Nature's over there and I'm over here. I feel like I'm the only one who has his head in straight in this issue.

I know this has been said before, but *holy shit* is this all that it's ever been? Countless numbers of broken people grasping desperately at fake solutions and violating vital norms to cover the difference?

@niplav I think that a better intervention is reducing routine car-miles. People should understand it's a matter of personal and social de-risking to move their residences, work, and regular appointments closer together and combining car trips.

@rime

>I'm decent at abstract thought

... but we have warrant to infer that you could have been better.

I feel I should just add a little more so that doesn't feel like I'm being curt. Your counterargument seems to indicate that abstract thinking survives head injury, which may be true in a great number of cases, but I think that it's fair to say that there are degrees / extensions of brain health, and it's probably better to be on the "more" side than the "less" side.

@niplav Probably excessive.

My effective altruism project is getting people to
1. HOLD ONTO THE RAILS ON THE STAIRS
2. HOLD ON TO THE RAIL WHEN YOU GET OUT OF THE BATH
3. NEVER GET ONTO THE ROAD WHILE DRUNK OR IMPAIRED, INCLUDING ON A BICYCLE

My job has made me into a TBI truther. Brain injuries are devastating to cognition, self-regulation, and a bevy of other health outcomes. It's linked to a zillion bad social outcomes.

Forget about every other factor that determines human development outcomes: forget about genes, IQ, pollution, whatever. All of that shit is easily washed out by one good fall off of a bike. But unlike genes, we can actually do something about protecting brains.

@niplav Important research findings!

Shintaro Miyake

Are big cats aesthetically perfect, or are they exactly the kind of threat that your phenotype was evolved to detect?

It is a fact that the US old-age pension (Social Security) was created to counter a popular Gessellian negative interest proposal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_and_Eggs_Movement

There was a world before all of this. I still remember it. I hope you do too.

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