I look forward to hearing the scarcities you are able to eliminate for these things. Naively, I’d expect there to be a desire for “significant participation in the activities that resonate with me”. Turning it from “a holiday ritual” into “a plethora of ritual-ish activities” doesn’t seem like it’s going to satisfy.
I hope I’m wrong—please let us know how it works out!
The Solstice examples are places where I think the elimination-of-scarcity basically worked (or at least, I’ve seen examples of it working – it varies by individual instances of the Solstice and who’s running them and what skills they bring to table).
The idea wasn’t to turn it into a plethora of (unrelated? I assume was the implication) ritual activites, just to make sure that the ceremony hits a number of particular notes.
(I’d say this is kinda like editing a movie: a movie can have funny parts, sad parts, fast/exciting parts and some slower sections that just give you room to breath. Some people prefer particular kinds of parts, but it’s common for what makes a “good” movie to be whether it successfully blends them into a cohesive whole. Fewer people are up for watching a movie that’s just depressing, but many people are up for watching a movie that weaves sad bits into uplifting or funny bits)
good deal—interestingly, that’s an aspect of “resource provision” I hadn’t connected with your original post—you may not need to find/add resources, you can find more efficient uses of time/attention resources, and still satisfy a lot of needs.
This probably generalizes somewhere on the satisficing/optimizing plane—things close to a satisfy-level can be addressed this way.
I look forward to hearing the scarcities you are able to eliminate for these things. Naively, I’d expect there to be a desire for “significant participation in the activities that resonate with me”. Turning it from “a holiday ritual” into “a plethora of ritual-ish activities” doesn’t seem like it’s going to satisfy.
I hope I’m wrong—please let us know how it works out!
The Solstice examples are places where I think the elimination-of-scarcity basically worked (or at least, I’ve seen examples of it working – it varies by individual instances of the Solstice and who’s running them and what skills they bring to table).
The idea wasn’t to turn it into a plethora of (unrelated? I assume was the implication) ritual activites, just to make sure that the ceremony hits a number of particular notes.
(I’d say this is kinda like editing a movie: a movie can have funny parts, sad parts, fast/exciting parts and some slower sections that just give you room to breath. Some people prefer particular kinds of parts, but it’s common for what makes a “good” movie to be whether it successfully blends them into a cohesive whole. Fewer people are up for watching a movie that’s just depressing, but many people are up for watching a movie that weaves sad bits into uplifting or funny bits)
good deal—interestingly, that’s an aspect of “resource provision” I hadn’t connected with your original post—you may not need to find/add resources, you can find more efficient uses of time/attention resources, and still satisfy a lot of needs.
This probably generalizes somewhere on the satisficing/optimizing plane—things close to a satisfy-level can be addressed this way.
Nod. I’d add that part of the check here is “could your ‘maximize’ function be rewritten as a ‘very high satisfice’ function?”