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Controversial opinion:

People have always organized themselves into clans. Like big extended families or groups of those families and neighborhoods. That has always been our natural way of setting up society. It's been like that for thousands of years.

This modern hyper-individualism is unnatural and it has just made us all lonelier. Lonelier, poorer, powerless, dependent on government welfare and institutional help. We've traded away our security and power, in the form of sovereignty, for our egos that are so vulnerable to temporary trends. What a crappy deal. nostr:nevent1qqsz204xq4swnqe7wmxeedc2z0x8zrltrv9rre7kq64qkclgq5ml8wqfy683f

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Ankh- Morpok 3w ago

True but they’re starting to organise themselves into clans again except this time it’s happening online.

Don Dahir 3w ago

Not controversial whatsoever. I can see the benefits of apart of closely knitted tribal families as a Somali, being lonely is an option 🤣

Muslim Bitcoiner 3w ago

It's weird that modern states breed this type of hyper individualism yet it's only "individual" in so far as it's dependent on state apparatuses. We need a radically different type of "individualism" that's more sovereign, responsible, and more clan oriented.

ابو مريم 3w ago

Lonelier? No! The modern tech stack has made us more connected and engaged than any previous generation, so there is no excuse for loneliness. The issue is that postmodernity disolved the dividual and that people no longer have clarity on who they are. Now hypermodernity has empowered an new kind of ontology that is floating, discarnate, deworlded and decontextualized from anything but the luminous glow of cyberspace.

As nostr:npub1uzfp6cgwue2njm86cmyeq7m26y0n58w72acq98sjsnnv4c87002s6857h3 has proposed, "cyber-nomads" is good way to summarize this.

alp 3w ago

Yeah, but it's a superficial kind of connection. You don't see people's moods, you can't ask the other person how they're doing or if everything's okay. There's no real heart-to-heart connection either. You've got to admit, it's not comparable to what is possible in the real world.

ابو مريم 3w ago

but you can ask an AI chatbot all those things. it's artificial rather than superficial. artifical doesn't care if it's real, only if it's practical. superficial still clings to the idea of a heart and/or soul being a thing.