Most LibSocs envision something akin to Huxley's Island where drug abuse is good for you and individual freedom and sexual pleasure coexists with the egalitarian collective cooperative they so
What always fascinated me about those authors, and ones such as Heinlein, is that they were writing at a time when the world still had solid cultural and social norms and speculating about a possible future where those were different.
suicides would be low actually i think, because replicator tech means everybody essentially has infinite comforts. that combined with holodecks would be enough for people to cope with meaninglessness indefinitely. birth rates would be near zero though. i'd imagine (human) society would slowly disintegrate as no major organisations (like starfleet) could keep up operations for very long, because the combination of population decline and large numbers of people choosing the holodeck NEET life means that they won't find enough recruits to replenish the ranks, so the organisation would continuously shrink over time.
I think the fact that holodeck 'accomplishments' are a poor substitute for actual real life ones would become apparent really quickly, hence my belief that suicides rates would be high. Also from what we know about evolving pornographic tastes, you'd probably see people emulating their worst fantasies of raping and murdering children or worse. I can't imagine the translation of that from holodeck 'reality' to actual reality would be positive.
iirc, The Next Generation had holodeck time limits on the ship and I don't think they ever showed them on earth in any significant capacity. I do find it amusing picard's family was able to keep their bougie vineyard on earth in the utopia.
Don't progressives believe that's a therapeutic outlet?
Unlimited or nearly-unlimited access to comforts causes something called a "behavioral sink," resulting in hedonistic and debauched behavior and eventually mass social implosion. This has been extensively studied in animals and there's no reason to believe that human beings are any different.
Even back then culture and social norms were being destroyed, especially accelerating after WW2. The disintegration is because of the conditions that technology imposes on man. It caused drug use on a mass scale as escapism (including recreational and prescription drugs like anti-depressents), "sexual liberation" because of the breakdown of traditional moral and family structures. While I agree drug use and "sexual liberation" are obvious symptoms and cause further disintegration, they are just symptoms. In the short term of our lives it seem like things are just beginning to get worse when in reality they have been getting worse for a very long time; we have no frame of reference besides literature which largely view these trends as social liberation. The role of technology becomes obvious in modern times because of the rapid disintegration in which we are experiencing today. In a phrase, the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
"It worked in Star Trek" types would argue that when the post-scarcity "never having to work" society is achieved, people would simply pursue "self-improvement" instead of abusing the new system and allowing themselves to be consumed by pleasure. Meaning they clearly don't understand how people function because "muh human nature isn't real".
Do you recall what prompted him to leave exactly? I vaguely remember him releasing a really whiny video saying that he's done with YouTube because of some dumb Breadtube drama, but that's about it.
I didn't know Theodore Kaczynski had an account on the farms
Being terminally online rots your brain to the point where you forget children aren’t meant to be exposed to explicit materialbig joel deleted his account after tons of people dunked on him for this tweet
https://archive.md/yzC6B
disagree. technology and industry themselves do not cause this decline, the key factor is how a society allows them to impact the social order.
Random Observation, but how is "Demon Mama" allowed to represent his skin as so dark in the picture? I understand they're going for a satan-like look for the thumbnail, but from a a community which constantly makes mountains out of molehills, you'd think someone would have called him out for disrespecting minorities or something.
The solution would be to genetically engineer human nature to be different, which I think in a Star Trek-type utopia would be 100% possible. Combine that with biological immortality and you could theoretically have human existence be a never-ending paradise of bliss. Now, would this have unintended negative consequences (or still cause society to implode)? Obviously, everything does. But that would be one hypothetical solution.
