Some people need a master. Children tempted to drink gasoline, for example.
Assuming that the control could be resisted, call that a test. A test of self-awareness. If you can resist then you get free will, if you don’t then you don’t. It could be appropriate either way.
Assume that it’s one you like.
Ok, instead of a chip use strong propaganda.
Assume there’s a legitimately strong argument for their goodness and smartness.
You can’t make better people and better cattle at the same time.
Imagine you were a billionaire. Which do you want?
In other words.
You can stuff their heads with memes and talking-points all day, get them shouting the party slogans in chorus.
But you can’t give them the initiative to actually do something.
(Or to think for themselves for that matter. It rather contradicts the whole stuffed-head thing)
Sure, I’m cashing them in later today.
Lemme see if I can put that in a succinct meme.
We have created a parallel reality. A consensual dream. And, when you live in a society, skill at navigating the consensual dream is more useful than skill at navigating reality.
That probably covers it sufficiently. Translations for non-sexual contexts is easy.
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.
Yeah but the burkas in the movie are totally different.
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
You don’t think we could hit 99% popularity?