Sometimes it feels like we’re fated to live out “The Dispossessed,” right here on Mastodon. Here we’re freed from the shackles of the systems that constrained us before, free to make whatever kind of culture we collectively desire, and yet that culture so often feels circumscribed by our dreariness, our failure to imagine, our inability to show up for one other. An ambiguous utopia indeed.
@adamgreenfield Yes I was also thinking that. "The days taste like dust." But in both cases it's a warning that yu can't just wish yourself into a post-scaircity situation. Culture and creativity are resources just like anything else and its no accident that Fediverse and Anarres are both poor.
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