I suspect that if you articulated an equally concrete alternative and invited comparison, you’d discover that support for what is articulated in the Fun Theory sequence isn’t nearly as strong as you imply here. But being concrete about it is the tricky part.
It’s easy to endorse a Fun-based morality when we only think about it in the context of a vaguely defined post-scarcity environment, just as it’s easy to endorse a God-based morality when we only think about it in the context of a vaguely defined eternity. As with most moral frameworks, the difficulty comes when we come back out of the clouds and try to apply it to our actual lives.
If you have succeeded in doing so with your own life and your preferred moral framework, I salute you. If you can articulate that moral framework and how it guides your choices, even better.
Only vaguely relatedly: personally, I think the primary danger of terms like “Fun,” or “God’s Will,” or the various other words we’ve made up over the centuries to refer to the terminal value(s) that supposedly underlie all the values we know about is that talking about them too much makes it easy for us to believe they exist, even when we don’t have much evidence supporting that belief. Since I’m pretty skeptical that any such thing exists, or that the closest analog to it that exists is coherent enough to make having a single word for it useful, my feelings about it are mixed.
I suspect that if you articulated an equally concrete alternative and invited comparison, you’d discover that support for what is articulated in the Fun Theory sequence isn’t nearly as strong as you imply here. But being concrete about it is the tricky part.
It’s easy to endorse a Fun-based morality when we only think about it in the context of a vaguely defined post-scarcity environment, just as it’s easy to endorse a God-based morality when we only think about it in the context of a vaguely defined eternity. As with most moral frameworks, the difficulty comes when we come back out of the clouds and try to apply it to our actual lives.
If you have succeeded in doing so with your own life and your preferred moral framework, I salute you. If you can articulate that moral framework and how it guides your choices, even better.
Only vaguely relatedly: personally, I think the primary danger of terms like “Fun,” or “God’s Will,” or the various other words we’ve made up over the centuries to refer to the terminal value(s) that supposedly underlie all the values we know about is that talking about them too much makes it easy for us to believe they exist, even when we don’t have much evidence supporting that belief. Since I’m pretty skeptical that any such thing exists, or that the closest analog to it that exists is coherent enough to make having a single word for it useful, my feelings about it are mixed.