[HN Gopher] Inside The Box
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       Inside The Box
        
       Author : vitabenes
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2023-04-22 15:50 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (soaringtwenties.substack.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (soaringtwenties.substack.com)
        
       | replygirl wrote:
       | Summary: Our lives are made up of scopes we move between. Humans
       | are highly adaptable to their present scope. "Good [scopes]
       | reward us for spending time in them, they give us new ideas,
       | offer new perspectives, or simply make us feel human." Instead of
       | getting trapped in a bad scope, find a good one.
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       | I coulnd't help feeling infantilized the whole way through this
        
         | tomcam wrote:
         | Thank you. I couldn't think of a polite way to say what you
         | said eloquently.
         | 
         | Username checks out
        
           | rnk wrote:
           | I've never seen the name before, but "Soaring Twenties" is a
           | great little label for our times. Besides the play on the
           | original twenties, it has that connection to the universal
           | description of today, that it's the best of times and the
           | worst of times. We had the roaring last decade of (somewhat
           | empty) exuberance in tech, leaving much of the rest of
           | society behind in economic opportunity.
           | 
           | We have built so much useful as well as destructive
           | capabilities in technology and science, yet caused so much
           | damage with social media. Society is still as broken as ever,
           | with people working for the fascist takeover of the
           | government at least based in part on weaponized false claims
           | (freedom through removing your personal choices and library
           | book preferences), millions of hungry people living on the
           | street in the US, terrible health care in the US even though
           | we spend vastly more than others. And the world seems just as
           | close to war as it did in the second and third decades of the
           | 20th century.
        
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       | Animats wrote:
       | "As you would expect from the creator of deprocrastination, this
       | short essay is practical, accessible and wise." Followed by four
       | screens of cat pictures.
        
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