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This is a good point. Lots of communities fall into this category. The unemployed, retired folks, kids of celebrities, house wives etc.
yea 80/20 - most trust funders I know are unhappy. Another parallel might be the kids of celebrities.
Another interesting behavior of trust fund kids is that they fiercely try to maintain and guard status (status seeking monkeys). In a post-scarcity world -- status becomes all the things you alluded to: leadership, charisma, charm, etc.
YES!! I think two other factors are at play here.
- The shinto culture translates into techno-animist. We have a narrative in the West of tech killing the soul of humanity but in Japan all objects have kami (soul). Robots, Tamogatchis -- they all were seen as friends.
- Weirdness as a release valve. Because a lot of public life is so regulated, you get extreme subcultures (like kagero-za which I watched last night). The ability for weird subcultures to thrive ironically allows for "open" culture.
The manifold of recovery is the orchard of human freedom. -- This was an excellent post. THANK YOU for sharing.
finally a wise sage speaks. Do you have any specific passages that make reference to this in hindu literature that you might recommend I read?
A good follow-up to this post: #1408496 (https://aleximas.substack.com/p/the-cyborg-era-what-ai-means-for)