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(My apologies if this seems too off topic, but...)
Connecting your "I must believe in humanity" comment (on one of my posts) to this, I tend to believe the likes of permacomputing (or its seeming "permaculture" roots) is focusing too high in the "how shit happens" stack.. that humanity must first focus on what might be called "perma-being-decent-to-others", otherwise all other endeavor is doomed to behavioral entropy - including side effects like Tower-of-Babel-ism.
I hope that doesn't sound too "killjoy" on the theme of this subspace. But I keep re-discovering I'm seemingly one of the few people who's ever lived that can distinguish between a trash receptacle and a recyclable receptacle, and root cause seems to be less a difference in intelligence than a difference in selfishness.
Oct 31 · 2 weeks ago · 👍 gyaradong
🐉 gyaradong · Oct 31 at 20:45:
There's a pithy saying, something like "communists worry about theory while anarchists worry about praxis". My thinking is that often practise precedes theory. Sometimes you have an idea and you go with it and it takes form and then it becomes an option for others and it grows. Gemini is one such idea. I think kindness is infectious, and to some extent I've only really become kinder as I grow (up, older, smarter).
Permacomputing fosters kindness in my view. It grows like a tree or an ecosystem, like permaculture itself. You give it water and it will reward you with shade and abundance. I think between generosity and kindness, generosity comes first.