I think returntomonke could be a place you can belong. More memes than discussion at the moment, but I hope to build real community as membership grows.
You mean me personally? I use tech all the time, even when I have a choice. But I do think it's important to consider the effects of the technology we let into our lives; particularly those effects that we don't yet understand. I mean, that is kind of how we got into this global warming mess, right? I'm also more than a little sceptical of the idea that complex societies improve our lives.
But neoluddites and anarchoprimitivists are a diverse bunch with interesting and conflicting opinions, and I want to hear, debate, and meme about them all. Now they can unite under the slightly absurd yet oddly compelling banner of returning to monke.
Well, the original luddites didn't oppose all recent tech innovation, just the tech that made their lives worse. The Amish use tractors and air compressors. Similarly, maybe a neoluddite opposes AI but not the internet. Or maybe the actual primitivists aren't in the community at all, and we use the space to talk about whether they should be and why or why not.
In point of fact this conversation we're having now is a perfect example of discussing and critiquing return to monke, so you should post this there.
Or maybe you just want a place to shitpost a meme about the sweet irony of online primitivism.
This is pretty much my approach as well. If I don't have agency over what's happening I stay deliberately months to years behind the news cycle. By then, I can study it as recent history, with less panic, rancor, and propaganda. That also gives me space to stay up to date on the few things I can affect, like decentralizing the internet, breeding locally adapted potatoes, and enjoying life.
A friend commented on how wonderful a life we must lead, to be unconcerned about the news. I don't understand it, because all you have to do is stop watching it.
Most recently, trying to directly access user files through explorer. More disturbingly, while trying to uninstall "system" software. It seems like windows resembles unrooted android more and more with each version.
That's the traditional model, but I don't think it applies anymore. We seem to be living in a post-nation state era. People are fully reliant on the top dozen or so companies, so those companies have tremendous power over government. Some governments are only just now realizing that fact and are trying to push back, but it's way too late.
I think returntomonke could be a place you can belong. More memes than discussion at the moment, but I hope to build real community as membership grows.