Trying to decouple my mind and the mind of those I know from the ‘black magic’ of advertisements and social norms designed to funnel money and material through wasteful useless economic activity rather than productive activity, by denying advertisement access to my nervous system as much as possible and calling out every time something or someone tries to implicitly tie something to a basal social-primate urge it does not actually belong tied to.
Exposing more people to the idea that the endless-progress-versus-apocalypse dichotomy of conceptions of the future is a false dichotomy, that neither will actually occur, and that the broader ‘mythology of progress’ is destructive and limiting.
Continuing to read up on the work of some very interesting scientists creating synthetic metabolic pathways in tanks that do not exist in nature and thinking about the sorts of research I want to do after grad school.
Exposing more people to the idea that the endless-progress-versus-apocalypse dichotomy of conceptions of the future is a false dichotomy, that neither will actually occur, and that the broader ‘mythology of progress’ is destructive and limiting.
Trying to decouple my mind and the mind of those I know from the ‘black magic’ of advertisements and social norms designed to funnel money and material through wasteful useless economic activity rather than productive activity, by denying advertisement access to my nervous system as much as possible and calling out every time something or someone tries to implicitly tie something to a basal social-primate urge it does not actually belong tied to.
Exposing more people to the idea that the endless-progress-versus-apocalypse dichotomy of conceptions of the future is a false dichotomy, that neither will actually occur, and that the broader ‘mythology of progress’ is destructive and limiting.
Continuing to read up on the work of some very interesting scientists creating synthetic metabolic pathways in tanks that do not exist in nature and thinking about the sorts of research I want to do after grad school.
Can you elaborate on what you mean?