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0 pointsforgotTheLast1y ago0 comments

If I had a dollar for every time I've seen someone embrace cyberpunk aesthetics while misunderstanding its ethos, I'd have enough money to buy my favorite social network and run it into the ground.

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wwweston1y ago

But would you have enough to buy your favorite society and run it into the ground?

Re: embracing aesthetics while misunderstanding ethos - I've noticed this about religion too. There is frequently a divide between subscription to deep ethos and social aesthetics and the latter often seems more popular.

This is especially puzzling to me with Christianity considering that a fair bit of the New Testament (and some of the Old) appears to be a criticism of exactly this problem and attempts to transcend it.

It might be that style over substance is a long-running human problem.

Philpax1y ago

> But would you have enough to buy your favorite society and run it into the ground?

If you pull it off right, you can get a 2-for-1 deal on the social network and parlay the result of your ketamine bender into a role as Shadow President.

gnuser1y ago

I’m taking it meta. Not only am I properly embracing high-tech, low-life in game world, my design is of a metaverse preemptively designed to learn the lessons to avoid a corporate dominated abusive version.

tbrownaw1y ago

> It might be that style over substance is a long-running human problem.

Standardization is useful for scaling.

CMCDragonkai1y ago

Understanding the ethos isn't necessary for reproducing behaviour. Someone has already worked out the why, just do what they tell you do.

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