Hunger games

What happens in there, fueled with the terror of becoming prey, see how quickly we become predator? See how quickly civilization disappears?”

Snow weaponized hope; capitalism weaponized guilt. Both distract from the truth that no one wins alone.

All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working

... See more

"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise"

Excellent! You almost look like a human being now!

what does it cost to believe in kindness? what does it cost to trust others in a world that rewards cynicism?

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Even if we see how the game is constructed, we find ourselves thinking that any alternative values such as kindness, compassion, collaboration are for losers. Like Katniss, we come to believe that such impulses, rather than being the only route to our collective survival, represent our greatest danger. This is the struggle, then, for us to avoid... See more