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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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I literally talked about this to a zen practitioner yesterday Being in the crypto trenches is in essence the same as being a gladiator in the Colosseum or a Tommy in Verdun. All are PvP battles in a zero sum game
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A tool can be used as a weapon certainly. The chair I'm sitting on could womp a skull much like a bronze spearhead or an iron spearhead or an information spearhead, but it can also be sat upon, or be admired for its esthetic resonance etc. That bronze hammer can be used to build a cathedral or smite a foe or non tax payer, its all in how it is wielded. Machines are becoming more than just a tool in this era, they can collaborate with us. What should these collaborations be? Maybe we can get past violence for power with this evolving tech.
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every once in a while, in my immediate work vicinity, bronze age comes and goes, fleeting, there'll be gang/turf wars and lives lost, yes jakarta still does this
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That's some incredible cherry picking, July! Plenty of tech isn't weapons. Some of the best things ever invented. Unless you want to count the wheel, the printing press, the light bulb and the rampant rabbit as weapons, then sure.
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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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Yes. This gets at the heart of productivity vs ritual convo without the academic speak. There’s another similar split I encountered called thing-making vs life-making, where the former industrial/capital tendency is a “number up” spreadsheet affair but the latter is a qualitative metric that cares whether the process, outcome and legacy of the action co-produces intangible benefits such as “making life meaningful, beautiful, and worth living”
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Modern tech didn’t erase the blood, it just pixelated it. Respect is what we lost in the upgrade.
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Progress didn’t end the violence, it just outsourced it and blurred the blood.
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