the SI way of living.

the quote from last week that got me thinking was
"we don't want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom."

I have thought about this concept of living for quite some time from the perspective an expanding industrial society. I remember watching 'Man verse Wild' and being constantly surprised at the level of knowledge that was necessary to survive that i did not know. once upon a time people learnt to kill and prepare meat, take only what they needed because it would not keep. I go to the supermarket, buy my packaged frozen meat and cook it at my own discretion. Now my point is through increased population and increased technology there are many jobs essential to living that i do not understand how they function.

There is a common saying, "learn everything, specialization is for ants." the problem with this is the more you know, the more you know you don't know, it is unavoidable. In someways it is the technology responsible for our reliability on the system of living. I found myself in an interesting position when i thought about technology killing my primal instincts, or at least making education within them redundant. I realized I was getting further from knowing how to live primitively but equidistant from understanding the inner working of modern day technology. I wonder if they will be a point where the system breaks down and people can't function primitively whilst also not being able to help themselves to reset their own technological independents.

the day that cash as a currency dies will be an interesting day for those with SI ideals about removing themselves from the systems way of life.
August 29, 2010 8:45 PM