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We've forgotten how to carry forward our respect for the power of what technology actually does. It's a tool, and a tool has always been, what? A weapon made for a human hand. Bronze Age: Hand holds axe, splits skull Industrial Age: Hand pulls trigger → bullet splits skull Information Age: Hand clicks mouse → algorithm → drone → missile → skull If you think about it -- I mean really think about it -- all the technological 'tools' that reside in the British Museum, or The National Museum of Ireland -- are, you guessed it, weapons. We've never really stopped making weapons - we've just gotten better at hiding the violence behind intermediary systems. As technology has developed, we've just increased more and more intermediaries that abstracted away the violence further and further. We used to look the deer in the eye, and give our respect to the gods to the deer, feel the weight of taking its life. We choose violence, but we also must respect the consequences of our actions should we choose to do so. Look at the fucking deer in the eye. Look. And respect it. Then do it.
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there is some gold coins at the British museum. I know cause i made a /poap of one of them I get that trade and economy can brake a skull but its far fetched a bit ? > https://poap.gallery/drops/175633 > The artwork for this POAP is inspired by a European plate I encountered during my visit to the British Museum in April 2024.
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Money is literally crystallized violence - it's a way to make force abstract and transferable. Instead of "I will hurt you if you don't give me grain," it becomes "you owe me $100." Or in David Graber's book, Debt the first 5000 years, debt being transferred and making sure its enforced was first backed by communities internally but when intermediaries coudln't trust each other, it was backed by violence. The US dollar is propped up by threat of violence - so I don't think its far fetchted to be hoenst
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