Alpha Centauri.
I think returntomonke could be a place you can belong. More memes than discussion at the moment, but I hope to build real community as membership grows.
I'm really enjoying these conversations here-- these are exactly the kinds of discussions the community is for.
You mean me personally? I use tech all the time, even when I have a choice. But I do think it's important to consider the effects of the technology we let into our lives; particularly those effects that we don't yet understand. I mean, that is kind of how we got into this global warming mess, right? I'm also more than a little sceptical of the idea that complex societies improve our lives.
But neoluddites and anarchoprimitivists are a diverse bunch with interesting and conflicting opinions, and I want to hear, debate, and meme about them all. Now they can unite under the slightly absurd yet oddly compelling banner of returning to monke.
If you are slinging shit around you might belong.
Well, the original luddites didn't oppose all recent tech innovation, just the tech that made their lives worse. The Amish use tractors and air compressors. Similarly, maybe a neoluddite opposes AI but not the internet. Or maybe the actual primitivists aren't in the community at all, and we use the space to talk about whether they should be and why or why not.
In point of fact this conversation we're having now is a perfect example of discussing and critiquing return to monke, so you should post this there.
Or maybe you just want a place to shitpost a meme about the sweet irony of online primitivism.
Can you give some examples to read up on?
What alternatives do you suggest?
I feel sorry for you that your experiences of fellow humans have been so unrelentingly negative. To clarify your position, are you saying groups of humans are incapable of altruism?
This is pretty much my approach as well. If I don't have agency over what's happening I stay deliberately months to years behind the news cycle. By then, I can study it as recent history, with less panic, rancor, and propaganda. That also gives me space to stay up to date on the few things I can affect, like decentralizing the internet, breeding locally adapted potatoes, and enjoying life.
A friend commented on how wonderful a life we must lead, to be unconcerned about the news. I don't understand it, because all you have to do is stop watching it.
Fluxbox is simple, flexible, fast, and beautiful. I've been running fluxbox/debian for like 20 years and couldn't be happier.