I think it might be good for me to explore some ideologies through the lens of "productivity vs leisure". For example, traditionalism vs liberalism, capitalism vs socialism, and stuff like that.
And I think this also ties into worries of "oh no civilization is gonna collapse because people are becoming too degenerate (not the way people need to be in order to maintain...order and civilization and all that, it's as bad as reverting to mythical Hobbesian animalistic savagery like in Zootopia)". And "decadent".
Even probably quite similar to the "Freedom VS Security" quandary.
Bunch of links and stuff:
- The Ethical Slut: "Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you"
- "Homosexual "Marriage" and Civilization" by Orson Scott Card
- Contrapoints on "Degeneracy"
- Scary confused ignorant ranting "anarcho capitalist" turned fascist: "fascism is the necessary response to communism" (youtube video no longer available, account terminated but he's on twitter: "My videos have been uploaded to the blockchain and are now back online across multiple platforms. I also have a new YouTube channel https://bit.ly/2qToa3a . Try to censor my videos now you Jews." [link])
- some more "libertarians" panicking about societal productivity:
- [direct link, and wayback link] this guy. he sees millions of people concerned about work-life balance, and goes full "sound the alarm, we need to investigate what could possibly be happening here omg" about it. if the propagandistic construction of the first 3 theories [and the inclusion of IMPENDING DOOM IF THEORY NUMBER THREE IS TRUE] isn't enough of a clue as to what he's really up to here, here's the timestamps for when each of his "theories" was posted to twitter:
- 9:58
- 10:02
- 10:04 [now he's tired. he'll take a bit of a break and post more theories later]
- 10:11
- 10:13 [ok that's enough, break time again]
- 10:20
- 10:35
- 10:40
- 10:45
- 10:50 [we made it! an hour after starting!]
- [wayback link] something something, genetics, IQ, something, they're suppressing the truth, OUR COUNTRY WILL COLLAPSE if we keep PRETENDING ABILITY ISN'T REAL
- [direct link, and wayback link] this guy. he sees millions of people concerned about work-life balance, and goes full "sound the alarm, we need to investigate what could possibly be happening here omg" about it. if the propagandistic construction of the first 3 theories [and the inclusion of IMPENDING DOOM IF THEORY NUMBER THREE IS TRUE] isn't enough of a clue as to what he's really up to here, here's the timestamps for when each of his "theories" was posted to twitter: