Re:Inclusivity Is a Joke
by DanielBMarkham on Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:02PM
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It is a species-level critical topic, but I doubt anybody will give it enough attention.
Since recorded history, we've evolved a way of dealing and working with each other that assumes a certain physical world. That world no longer exists.
>We've evolved a way of dealing and working with each other that assumes a certain physical world. That world no longer exists.
Couldn't agree with this more. It's going to be interesting to see how things play out.
Who says a lot of that previous physical world won't return? The Gods of the Copybook Headings and all that?
E.g. how long can the US Federal government continue to borrow "a trillion dollars a year" to fund continuing operations? Not forever, I submit to you.
(And, yes, I know it's dropped to around half of that, but there's no plan to drop it further, and that's not counting things like the Fed keeping interest rates so low.)
Consider that 100 years ago a picture was a novelty, there was no such thing as perfect recollection.
Today we have a perfect/accurate record of exactly what was said/done on social media; it's led to a culture of virtue signalling and often dishonest but politically correct dialogue.
Don't get me wrong, I love technology and the amazing things it's let us do, but I don't think this aspect is discussed enough.
Our day to day existence as a human being has completely/foundationally/fundamentally changed within the span of a couple generations.