• 1984@lemmy.today
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    8 days ago

    Humans are actually not very intelligent. You can look at our societies and see how we are all stuck, spending our life working just so we can pay the bills.

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        8 days ago

        Yeah. If the machine would grind to an halt and give people time to think, it would wake them up, at least to a degree.

        Most are just running in the hamster wheel all their life.

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      8 days ago

      For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

      Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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      I’m fairly aware that I’m trapped, and I am not content at all. But I have little time, energy, and space to pivot. I got the most progress while unemployed.

      Rn I’m almost 100% kitted out, I just need to make my own money, and I can finally focus on what really matters.