The looming fear that someone would eventually come and tell me to stop fucking around with esolangs and to get to work.
Each year, I'm like, just one more year of playful computing, just.. one more- please
@neauoire How the hell would someone have that authority on you ? you get your creative and very productive practice, your boat, your supporters and friends, and some intl fame ... what would be the force that would push it on you?
you both have those buoyant bases to lean on, kill the anguish and enjoy !
@Olm_e sometimes we wonder if we run out of funds what we'll do, we live off donations, and I'm constantly surprised that people are willing to help us spend our days playing.
@benthor Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out!
@levibeach @neauoire Mhmm, I think I interpreted Clarke's comment as a suggestion for a faster, more radical change. Fuller's statement surely is more tangible. Building new models takes time and sometimes I get impatient. But I suppose the speed at which we are heading towards collapse is fast enough anyhow.
@rostiger @neauoire 100% feel you on the impatience/urgency aspect 😄 I want to be careful not to step into a privileged mentality of "we must burn it down to rebuild" IF there is no real, stable, and well understood infrastructure to facilitate meaningful growth in the direction we want as humans (i.e. "lives of leisure").
@neauoire @rostiger @Olm_e @rek I don't think the way to go is some perfected grand plan to fix everything. Rather, the injustice of the current socioeconomic system is made up of a lot of smaller everyday injustices, which most people don't complain about because they are so embedded in the status quo we barely see them. If we started to point them out and ask for change, we'd already get gradual larger-scale change in the right direction.
@neauoire @rostiger @Olm_e @rek I wrote an essay on one of these injustices if you're looking to be put to sleep :) https://vladh.net/alternatives-to-wage-labour
@neauoire @Olm_e @rek Yes, but how? Right now, the best thing we can do is find ways around it and wait for it to destroy itself.