Clark on the two great enemies of civilization, fear and boredom:
Fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague, fears that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees or even planning next year's crops. And fear of the supernatural, which means that you daren't question anything or change anything. The late antique world was full of meaningless rituals, mystery religions, that destroyed self-confidence. And then boredom. The feeling of hopelessness which can overtake people with a high degree of material prosperity.
https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/a-youtube-education
Etymology: Freebased. ➔ Based. ➔ Crack.
The based origin has already dug its way into the perfect workforce, foreign and white-passing.
Just like the white-washed symbolized etches on blue blocks. We went from crack rock, to memes, to propaganda, to a corporate suit and tie larping as decentralized.
The outcome?
Outsourced onboarding numbers to Africa to boost spreadsheet corporate numbers for proliferation of marketing.
Ad hominem criticisms, from the 80% of users here just to airdrop farm.
And a churning event of all employees and adjacent covert agents.
Just like their crackrock progenitor, they package and deliver it to the poor and dying, while desecrating idols
Base culture vultures feast on the remnants of digital culture, all which stem from the bottom chattel class
Funding and onboarding are no longer money and users, its numbers and colors, and the political blandness is now churning it’s core teams into a white-washed, public facing entity with legal outsourced labor around the globe parading with the title of ambassador while receiving little to nothing.
Those who benefit call it genius, but secretly feel powerless and unsafe in voicing their opinions
The ones that suffer have nothing left to offer, and never liked the space that much to begin with
They hold 3-4 tokens worth 0.003¢ inside their bubblemap and spent 5 months being managed commodities in a poorly made discord server with no level up bots or fun interactions
only raid bots which ping them when their labor of KYC likes and retweets are required to boost the company
Dev do something!
they cry out with nobody to save them helpless in the discord of the bottomless pit as the titans clash an invisible battle that makes the ground quake
Vitalik points the finger, commandeers their attention towards the truth of the corporate slop spreadsheet brain.
But they all called him a nerd and never paid attention to him, so they turned their heads and tuned into Karl Marx’s hologram twitch livestream and political takes bc at least there they felt heard.
I feel @paragraph could be amazing if the UX wasn’t cucked by privy.
Also, yes it’s Pre-MF, Yes ERC-20s are more accessible, but they don’t quite hit the same as an artistic NFT collectible tied to an article.
I need the buttery smooth user flow that substack gives with an NFTs and customizable collectible, not ERC-20.
If @reidtandy or @colin put a focus into the artistic aspect and not the financialization aspect copying zora which was copying instagram copying pump.fun because the rationale said there was more money there.
Statistics have biases.
That bias exists because the NFT art beauty fest was eaten alive by capitalistism in less than a year or two.
Those two things eat at each other.
Paragraph’s favorite feature of mine was a HIDDEN ONE, where you could change the thumbnail for the collectible.
Not sure if it’s gone now.
But we’ve never leaned into that bc your excel sheet brains can’t calculate the real value from that.
I could complain about a lot but I’d rather just be concise and say how much I really loved having my own art there.
someone who studied economics, played competitive chess, obsessed over painting will produce different work from someone who studied biology, played jazz, obsessed over Chinese history.
I want to get good at socializing but I get so anxious. But if I don't learn quick the 40-page deck, mini-app, and all the hours of work are for naught.
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Education and pedagogical teaching aren't reserved for the wealthy class, and philanthropy doesn't solve systemic issues. I'd much rather someone rug me or tell me they will kill me, then go through 3 seasons of ✰ netflix series that should've stopped at the end of the first season.
