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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 16:56:33 JST Aral Balkan

   “Growth!”

   – Famous last words, the human race.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 17:21:56 JST Aral Balkan

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     • recker5

     @recker5 This abridged quote by Richard Dawkins (who is problematic for other reasons), seems apt:

     “Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own society. If we were to be guided by the evolution principle, then we would be living in a kind of ultra-Thatcherite, Reaganite society.

     Study your Darwinism for two reasons, because it explains why you’re here, and to learn what to avoid in setting up society.”

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     recker5 (recker5@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 17:21:57 JST recker5

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     @aral
     BUT imagine the first ever existing cell hadn't had that urge in it's Genome.

     No Mastodon. No Internet. No humans.

     What a boring life.

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     screambiogenesis (screambiogenesis@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 17:26:33 JST screambiogenesis

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     @aral INFINITE GROWTH!*

     *for a limited time only

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 17:27:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     • screambiogenesis

     @screambiogenesis 👌

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 17:32:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     • recker5

     @recker5 The very last line is the key point.

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     recker5 (recker5@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Sep-2023 17:32:35 JST recker5

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     @aral
     Yeah, didn't argue for social darwinism.

     Just said, growth is the very reason we humans exist.

     Imagine 2 apes saw another ape with a growing brain and decided, let's stop this.

     Growth is a biological, and for that, a human trait. We should just be intelligent enough to stop it, in cases where it kills us.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 16:29:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • 🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann

     @cweickhmann To be fair, I don’t think the universe gives much of a damn about us either way. All the more reason to take care of ourselves and our habitat the best we can.

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     🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann (cweickhmann@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 16:29:54 JST 🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann

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     @aral Is it just me, or does this sound an awful lot like one of those v!agra spam mail subjects? I wonder if the universe considers humanity partly spam... 🤭

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 19:16:05 JST Aral Balkan

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     • etwas

     @etwas42 Yeah, that’s Kate’s model.

     She’s doing good work and, when we spoke, she seemed to be very open and receptive to the idea of Small Web.

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     etwas (etwas42@social.etwas42.de)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 19:16:06 JST etwas

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     @aral
     Sad but true.
     Just heard a Podcast about an alternative economic Model called "Doughnut Economy". Sounds interesting, but I don't know if it will work on a large scale.
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut_(economic_model)