lowk all i do nowadays is read books, play guitar and nkthing much, who wanna be my friend
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@SqvierJagvarHS cc @f0x i think thou can relate
@kirby @SqvierJagvarHS i should get back into books. i have an essentially endless amount of digital books at my fingertips but i am apparently psychologically linked to paper in some way that makes physical media easier to consume. woe. aiy. 
@SqvierJagvarHS @kirby if y'look through my endless amount of media i've been falling down a cross species linguistic rabbit hole from bacteria to birds and such. I've previously read up on some psychology of evolution stuff and have some more to read on the same topic, recommended by a well read friend.. I also studied just plain ol' psych for a while, same with plain ol' evolution.
I sadly don't particularly find economics interesting due to it's inherent exploitative nature; any economy i enjoy often is "primitive" in nature. older models. I was recently ranting about my fear of how the market will shift with moderate labor becoming fully automated? but the discussion basically was just me working out pathways that society might take and then me getting angry about rich people and whatever etcetera..
I sadly don't particularly find economics interesting due to it's inherent exploitative nature; any economy i enjoy often is "primitive" in nature. older models. I was recently ranting about my fear of how the market will shift with moderate labor becoming fully automated? but the discussion basically was just me working out pathways that society might take and then me getting angry about rich people and whatever etcetera..
@f0x @kirby i just sit around on marxists.org, pubmed central and homestuck.com LMAO everyone irl keepz thinking im the next Einstein for it, i dont know why
@SqvierJagvarHS @kirby being literate is rare nowadays. terrifying eh? i hate it.
We're almost fully moved to being an oral culture. All the gains in education if they even meaningfully existed have been wiped out
@newmodel @SqvierJagvarHS @kirby roughly. it's purposeful. well read people don't take bullshit and there is a ton to sift through these days. the men sleep.
You say that but trade paperback/overall book consumption peaked in the mid 80s, and the troubles started well before that. I think what you're identifying there with the men sleeping is the intense social stratification we've undergone that has removed well-read-people as you've put it from being able to influence those with power.
All major publishers have been taken over by woke foids for some time now. No fiction is written for men anymore. It's all DIE authors targeting a female audience. Or some jew writing a crappy "darker version of Harry Potter" (Magicians by Lev Grossman). Fiction that'd get boys into the habit of reading are older books not on the shelves at B&N. So if parents walk in with a boy it'll be all meh to him. (except maybe manga)
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6what? This is true but when did this come up in conversation?
Part of the reason why this happened
>trade paperback/overall book consumption peaked in the mid 80s
>trade paperback/overall book consumption peaked in the mid 80s
You didn't say or even imply that. You wrote a non-sequitur. I don't believe that's true. The industry people I know who worked at the time blamed cheap music and video tapes. It isn't so much the woke (although they're a factor) but changing media consumption habits aided by the availability of new formats.
>The industry people I know who worked at the time blamed cheap music and video tapes.
Did you expect them to say "we're fucking things up"?
Did you expect them to say "we're fucking things up"?
"Executives in the 80s were woke idiots" is a silly line that doesn't apply here sorry friend. It's like how the internet cut newpaper print circulation in half, the VCR and walkman did that for pulp novels. Technological change can happen and remove the foundations from your industry.
To give a less recent example, there was a locomotive manufacturer in in PA called the Baldwin Locomotive Works. They decided, in the 30s after some early trials with diesel and gasoline engines they would make exclusively steam engines, and invested millions in building a new facility. Less than four years after their new facility opened in '36, new developments in internal combustion tech allowed a new competitor, General Motors, to eat their whole market share. They ended up winding down production in the 50s, and existed as a patent holding/pension company until the late 80s when they closed for good.
Sometimes the market can change wildly and randomly underneath you, and will destroy everything you've built. Nassim Taleb calls this a 'Black Swan' event.
Sometimes the market can change wildly and randomly underneath you, and will destroy everything you've built. Nassim Taleb calls this a 'Black Swan' event.