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this man straight-up donald-ducking it in the middle of the street, at the intersection of “oops i accidentally called my teacher ‘mom’” road and “actually it’s about integrity in gaming journalism b!T¢h” boulevard, not entirely sure how he got there, but certain nobody else put him there.
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this man straight-up donald-ducking it in the middle of the street, at the intersection of “oops i accidentally called my teacher ‘mom’” road and “actually it’s about integrity in gaming journalism b!T¢h” boulevard, not entirely sure how he got there, but certain nobody else put him there.
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wow!!
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mochi
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another big part is that they can sell that same ethos to the less affluent:
you, too, can avoid wasting time, money, and hassle on human interactions. our tech will help you efficiently devote every single moment of your life to selfish individual profit-making or leisure ––just like the rich do!
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wealthy people have been outsourcing such tasks to other PEOPLE for ages.
that’s what personal assistants are.
so a big part of this tech's appeal is that the rich won’t have to pay people anymore, nor have to deal with anything so messy/annoying as their human rights or dignity or limitations.
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the “les miz” irony of it all.
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“clash"🙄
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"[Hunting For] The Grandma Of All Eukaryotes”
Album title dibs.
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“the mind is a wonderful servant, and a terrible master."
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thread altogether: skywriter.blue/pages/broadw...
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hmmm.
it’s very hard for me to hear it as any kind of self-aware commentary in re musak and 80s cop-show score, rather than an earnest effort unselfconsciously steeped in those conventions.
but you’ve got me ruminating on the possibility now.
maybe time for a rewatch.
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dang!
this is the through-the-looking-glass image of sinéad o’connor’s "nothing compares 2 U."
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also true: just because my doctor is dismissing me and stonewalling me and gaslighting me softly and calmly and slowly, while i am virtually shout-crying in exasperated desperation for him to listen to me and believe me and help me, doesn’t mean he is righter than me.
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no *true* scotsman will lose coverage.
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they were roommates.
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there was a time, my child ––scarcely remembered by the eldest of the elders now–– when travelers were known to call ––yes, on the telephone! so the legend goes–– to ask total strangers [gasp!] for directions to their location.
and lo!
’tis said the strangers answered, and knew the way, and told.
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“caution: slide is terrible”
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you’re on all the apps.
he’s "sauntering down to the piers."
you are not the same.
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sickening.
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also, as so many others have said, i’m so sorry you had to deal with such a betrayal from a friend.
solidarity and hugs.
thank you for telling your story, and for standing up for the rest of us.
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survival of the fit, however ––the way darwin explicated evolution on this planet–– literally means to survive by fitting together with one another, to depend on one another to thrive, to adapt together to sustain life, to live in balance/harmony with one another so we’ll all do better.
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it should be blatantly obvious that, whether as individual choice or social policy, this is a recipe for ending up isolated and alienated from everyone and everything; for ultimately destroying everything and everyone around you ––and therefor, in the end, yourself.
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it is literally sociopathic. anti-social. anti-life.
"survival of the fittest” means being the sole winner in a zero-sum contest.
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the idea that we should be indifferent to preventable suffering and death, should just allow it as a matter of course, should even encourage it, is a shallow, unscientific, ahistorical, bad-faith interpretation of darwin, and not in any way aligned with the reality of the natural world.
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and those that survive and thrive do so precisely because they successfully stop this from happening far far far far far far far far far more often than not.
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in the human and non-human world, are the very young, very old, disabled, and extremely different often more prone to predation, sickness, and early or otherwise preventable death?
sure.
but trying really really hard to stop this from happening is just as natural as it happening.
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the reality is that only by living in concordant, beneficial interdependence with one another can we survive and thrive.
the reality is that if only the “fittest” survive, the entire ecosystem will collapse and all of us will die.
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the idea that it is natural and right and good that only one individual, or some select few, is meant to survive and thrive, and can only do so by subduing all others, is called “social darwinism.” yet it is precisely anathema to actual darwinism, to the scientific facts about survival and thriving.
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it’s the chief justification for colonialism, imperialism, slavery, genocide, and fascism. it’s “manifest destiny.”
and it’s the root cause of the man-made mass-extinction event currently underway.
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this intellectually and morally bankrupt substitution of “fittest” for “fit” ––of “individual domination” for “necessary and beneficial interdependence,” and of “human political/economic activity” for “ecosystem evolution over geologic time”–– is THE grievous error at the heart of capitalism.
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that is, to imagine that the natural and/or best order of things consists of and depends on the self-interested pursuit of individual domination [to the neglect/harm of all others], rather than on the mutually beneficial pursuit of collective health for all and sundry.
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this is the fundamental and [literally] fatal flaw of “social darwinism,” to mistake “survival of the fit” for “survival of the fittest.”
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...then it’s in the absolute necessity to survival of diversity and interdependence.
it’s in the obvious, massive adaptive advantages of cooperation/collaboration, sharing/helping, and inventiveness for collective thriving.
it’s in the wisdom of not fucking shit up for others.
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each thrives in balanced, multivalent, mutually beneficial relation to all others.
and if the mechanisms and principles guiding such eons-long, intra- and inter-species survival adaptations do hold any close analogy with modern intra-human social and economic relations [which, like, eh?]…
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furthermore, "fitness” for survival is not a zero-sum game. quite the opposite.
the “apex predator” crocodile is no more "fit" than the bird that picks its teeth clean for a meal, the mangroves and algae in its habitat, the bacteria in its gut, nor even the wildebeast on which it preys.
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that is, ANY and ALL species that FIT within the complicated and delicately balanced web of interdependencies which constitutes their living ecosystem, will survive and thrive.
as you point out, "fitness" is not a matter of individual strength or dominance, but of adapting, or being well-adapted.
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the resultant pseudo-scientific “political philosophy” of “social darwinism” is a gross misinterpretation and harmful maladaption of darwin’s insights about the natural world.
darwin elucidates the concept of “survival of the fit,” not of “the fittest.”
and the distinction is not merely semantic.
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i’d add that “survival of the fittest” is a term coined by spencer, not darwin, and adopted by those erroneously applying to human social and economic relations, the theories of biological species/ecosystem evolution through natural selection.
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DE-MI-TASSE!!
DE-MI-TASSE!!
DE-MI-TASSE!!