So why keep building? It's because our imagination models pasts, futures, and hypotheticals. These ideas build pressure in our minds, and they have to get out. Ideas insist on entering the physical world. The urge to create is less a choice and more a deep compulsion or reflex to shape what won't leave us alone.
Which I think is a bit idealist. Yeah maybe ideas wanna get out but the material conditions and mode of production decide whether these ideas will become consumer goods or not.
InevitableSwing [none/use name] - 2w
OP - you might get more likes if you put the name of the Youtube channel in the title.
Also - I really liked it.
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Tabitha ☢️[she/her] - 2w
IMO it should be a built-in feature of this website to automatically show the channel name, original youtube video name, and duration of posted videos.
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InevitableSwing [none/use name] - 2w
And the domain of links. Also - it would be really nice if the quote tag actually worked.
I can dream.
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Champoloo [he/him] - 2w
Done.
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infuziSporg [e/em/eir] - 1w
Also he really buries the lede, talking about how there is a machine we have created that is bigger than ourselves, and seems to drive itself faster than any of our attempts to steer it. Another thing he glosses over is the idea of embodied labor and energy, shying away from the very real point that you can do rather close accounting on these quantities.
Saying "think about your objects" is such a weak take. And so is "plastic forks and Coke cans and toasters are wonders that make our life possible", and so is a very vague and performative "waste less". You know how to ensure that people waste less? Keep the supply chain close and transparent, keep the process comprehensible, and make it extremely difficult to offload waste onto remote areas.
And I'll just come out and say it: a rocket stove, wooden chopsticks and wooden spoons and metal knives, and glass bottles give us equally good results as the toaster, the plastic spoon, and the aluminum beverage can; I would even go so far as to say none of the latter 3 should really exist. If everyone on earth were to be consequentially "mindful" of our consumption of things, we would exercise the ability to bring the economy to a screeching halt.
Maybe an economy in which most of our physical everyday objects can be fully conceptualized by an individual is not just possible, but desirable as a future worth fighting for.
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infuziSporg [e/em/eir] - 2w
Yeah maybe ideas wanna get out but the material conditions and mode of production decide whether these ideas will become consumer goods or not.
"And now, for my next trick, I shall lay out a precise materialist analysis of the emergence of all the design elements of a Labubu!"
Champoloo in videos
Why Simple Everyday Objects Are Impossible to Make | Design Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj0ze8GnBKAPretty good video but he says this at the end:
Which I think is a bit idealist. Yeah maybe ideas wanna get out but the material conditions and mode of production decide whether these ideas will become consumer goods or not.
OP - you might get more likes if you put the name of the Youtube channel in the title.
Also - I really liked it.
IMO it should be a built-in feature of this website to automatically show the channel name, original youtube video name, and duration of posted videos.
And the domain of links. Also - it would be really nice if the quote tag actually worked.
I can dream.
Done.
Also he really buries the lede, talking about how there is a machine we have created that is bigger than ourselves, and seems to drive itself faster than any of our attempts to steer it. Another thing he glosses over is the idea of embodied labor and energy, shying away from the very real point that you can do rather close accounting on these quantities.
Saying "think about your objects" is such a weak take. And so is "plastic forks and Coke cans and toasters are wonders that make our life possible", and so is a very vague and performative "waste less". You know how to ensure that people waste less? Keep the supply chain close and transparent, keep the process comprehensible, and make it extremely difficult to offload waste onto remote areas.
And I'll just come out and say it: a rocket stove, wooden chopsticks and wooden spoons and metal knives, and glass bottles give us equally good results as the toaster, the plastic spoon, and the aluminum beverage can; I would even go so far as to say none of the latter 3 should really exist. If everyone on earth were to be consequentially "mindful" of our consumption of things, we would exercise the ability to bring the economy to a screeching halt.
Maybe an economy in which most of our physical everyday objects can be fully conceptualized by an individual is not just possible, but desirable as a future worth fighting for.
"And now, for my next trick, I shall lay out a precise materialist analysis of the emergence of all the design elements of a Labubu!"