So we enter post-scarcity but everybody is still playing the same games.

It could be the effects of ancestral trauma. We see people expressing extreme poverty behavior even tho it happened a couple generations back.

It could be genetic. Climbing the social ladder is arguably what we’re born to do.

This would suggest some kind of therapy is called for.

I think there was a Greg Bear where humanity encountered an alien race with a nice therapy that became popular among humans. Probably an allegory for meditation.

Talsit?

Yeah, we should create a c/PedanticNonanswers too

Ok, the obvious : our society-programming is just that powerful. So we are all eyebrows-deep embedded in a useful insanity.

But you’d think we’d struggle against our restraints a bit more. That it might even be common. If nothing else, for the sake of art, science, economics.

An old storm damaged fence.

I’d call it a cultural artifact. We used to get married very young. In some cultures the kids are introduced to sex by the grandparents. And of course in our own culture the ideal of sexy beauty is a supermodel who looks like a 13 year old boy. It’s a whirlwind wrapped in a psychosis for sure.

Oh that is a good one. Thanks.

Oh good one!

I heard that a similar breeding program happened in some African cultures back in the day. Like you could only breed if you were an alpha hunter or somesuch.

So that’s how you get a race of 7’ tall dudes

Close enough. Ban him.

Seems rather light-handed. But maybe that’s the best way.

I have my doubts that would work. We have another propaganda stream, installed since birth, shouting that more babies is great. And this irrational mandate will be rationalized.

Yeah, but the cause could be drawn either way.

Splice chain link fence. Learned from YouTube. 5 days ago.

I figure the main arc of the plot is “a mystery is revealed and its depths explored”. That’s basically Egan and Hughes right there.

Except we’d do it without the science/technology tropes.

So like, chronic stress?

I know it makes me crazy when I work too much. A few years of that would definitely send me over the edge.

I was thinking maybe testosterone and estrogen.

99% sterility. Virus transmitted. Long incubation. People would freak out.

It took the world a million years before it figured out how to digest cellulose. It used to be like plastic. Just piled up.

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Not as bad as you, but ya, a little.

My pet peeve is interrogative greetings : how are you? how’s it going? What’s up? etc.

It’s like a preemptive attack.