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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

In my 20's I was all for it. I understand where the techbros are coming from. Now with over a decade more experience, I see clearly we need to spend so much more of our energy healing from traumas on the societal level: To dispel imperial-colonialist mindsets. Im thinkin of Bo Burningham speaking about how the empires exhausted all physical territory, and then discovered Data, going on to colonize every waking moment of our attention.

We need to shed the subconcious conquistador, with all it's machismo, all it's tribalism (most agregiously white supremacist nationalism) and covetous paranoia. It is a poison which will prevent us from making the societal leap from which all tides would rise.

Until we do that, all we'll get for this tech will be:

  • dystopic labor camp colonies on Mars
  • advertisements when we are trying to dream
  • Military tech developed under the guise of "medical ๐ŸŒˆ disabilities ๐ŸŒˆ quality ๐ŸŒˆ of ๐ŸŒˆ life ๐ŸŒˆ improvement ๐ŸŒˆ research" [1]

And we collectively deserve better

1: DeathPanel Podcast | Wheelchair-to-Warfare Pipeline