Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
In the US, this began with the launch of TikTok.
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
Economics of Human Energy and Creator economy trends
this began well before TikTok.
It was always there from the time we networked the first computers together, because it’s the flaw with the economy first and foremost.
Becase this freedom comes at a cost - in fact you'll probably need to die a little death.
It does get easier
The cost of freedom
Work is a waste of my time. The things that I’m best at, that I get the most benefit from, and see the most big-picture results from, don’t feel like work.
Nicholas Goodey • Resistance and Embracing Your Nature
“Work” is wasting energy, because energy goes down. But the truly valuable things make energy go up.
Collapsed states are simpler states, so anyone working towards a simpler state — and anyone telling an intelligible tale is doing precisely that — is working towards a collapse. The failure of a world begins with a failure of the imagination to comprehend increased complexity, and an urge to retreat to greater simplicity.
every story is a degrowth story
Economics of Human Energy and What we value
I don’t think this is necessarily degrowth, it’s compression. This feels like simplicity is a return to understanding of what’s valuable after building on top of it. It’s the flower budding, blooming, wilting, and blooming again. It’s cyclical and growth oriented, because uncapped growth is deadly to the environment and will be rejected.
Work makes a mockery of freedom.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Games can therefore be understood as imagination infrastructures—engines for imaginative engagement. There are so many games out there these days, endless virtual worlds, that the utopian potential of this medium to break far beyond the limited possibilities for collective imagination in “normal” society also seems endless.
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Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
Games of imagination are the cheapest way to explore future possibilities
They want your time , enough of it to make you theirs, even if they have no use for most of it. Otherwise why hasn’t the average work week gone down by more than a few minutes in the last sixty years?
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
probably too much tbh
manifesto energy
just like me fr
Heroism is a ridiculous basis for running a world. Main character energy is narrative fossil fuel.
every story is a degrowth story
But a perfect basis for running a life. Such is the edge to balance