Based on this demo the thing itself looks like a discussion forum. But that might be just one facet of its multifaceted everythingness. The documentation seems almost entirely about philosophy, intentions, aspirations, and being extendable, customizable, adjustable, adaptable, and groovy in every conceivable way. It does sound super cool, but honestly it’s very hard to find the substance.
Totally agree. It’s like the saying, “Do what you love and the money will follow.” When people do worthwhile things and share their knowledge and passion with others, the pool grows. No need to even define the whole thing as a movement, which can attract vocal wannabees who want the delusion that scrolling and clicking makes them activists.
I’m of similar temperament but not into cars. I think I deserve street creds for dropping and rebuilding my 72 VW bus pancake engine many years ago, but that was mainly to save money - I never felt like a greasemonkey. More of a woodworking guy and DIY remodeling junkie with lots of sit-down hobbies. But I totally get that you can’t live in a hut and have a ton of hobbies and interests - we need clean dry places to work, and room for our tools and endless stuff, right? My house has been fully solar for 5 years and I’ve had an electric car since 2014. I don’t think you’re a poser at all. What I’m wondering about is your comment about EVs. They predate the internet by a long shot, but I srsly doubt they’ll ever get away from modern digital controls and battery management. And you’re using the internet right now, so what’s the deal with that? Just wondering.
Nobody like, stares at the pictures, but if people like, actually studied and digested the source material instead of glancing at amusing blurbs and telling themselves they’re smart, they would be able to express more complex, coherent thoughts about things like politics and economics and post fewer memes and “capitalism bad!” chants that fill most threads. In spite of unparalleled access to information and in spite of educations they’ll be paying for until death, modern liberals are collectively as lazy-minded as conservatives. They just respond to different stimuli to trigger cheering, booing, and pressing BUY buttons.
Marx and Engels lived their entire lives in the 1800s. For them not to know what other relevant people of their time looked like makes infinitely more sense than someone with today’s incredible information access. IMO someone today who has genuinely studied the material would have seen enough of these people in articles to recognize more than the most famous few I mentioned. I think far too many people get too much “information” from memes and pretend to know more than they know. If all you’ve got is a strawman analogy about band t-shirts, well alrighty then.
To be even fairer, how many leftists or progressives reading this can name anybody in the photo collage besides Marx, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Malcolm X, and maybe Angela Davis, without doing an image search? And I say this as a guy who has voted progressive all my life. Too many people nowadays seem to get their “understanding” from memes.
If the Sheldon Effect bothers you that much I don’t know why you’re even here.
LPT: for the sake of your sanity stay off Reddit.
TBH I think it’s because people mostly use news for entertainment and everything gets old.