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First Real Post
Jun. 1st, 2019 04:59 pmFor my first *real* DreamWidth post, I'd like to try to set the tone of the journal by introducing and elaborating on topics that are of interest to me and will likely feature fairly regularly here.
I spend quite a lot of time thinking about utopian hypotheticals and what they suggest about people, individually or en masse. Specifically, I like to consider how our creative inclinations allow us to imagine the sorts of worlds we would *like* to live in - would voluntarily be born into - and how sharply these imagined worlds contrast with the coercive one we find ourselves living in. Attenuated by finitude and the material demands of the everyday, we make a lot of concessions regarding acceptability, but we possess imaginations that allow us to a limited degree to imagine preferable worlds.
To be truly desirable, I think a world would need to exist free of death, decay, and intense suffering. Existence would be this infinite, ever-expanding present wherein entities would be free to engage in self-edifying pursuits. Inconvenience could still exist in some manner, as well as negative reinforcement, but the intensity would be muted relative to what we encounter in our world (e.g. one could experience thirst to a limited degree, but it would never reach agonizing levels of intensity nor be truly existentially threatening). Challenges and problems could exist, but they'd be voluntarily engaged with and present as opportunities for recreation.
Generally speaking, to me utopia would present a boundless array of opportunities for perceiving entities to *voluntarily* engage with the world around them. In many ways, I see this notion of utopia reflected back at us as a species in things like video games or the internet. We are granted the latitude to engage in low-stakes problem solving and to exist in ways we specify. To that end, I am very interested in alternative forms of spirituality as well as the various *kin identities that abound here on DreamWidth or similar sites.
I don't think I personally identify as any sort of kin, but I deeply sympathize with the feeling of being *other*, and I've always found the other/fictionkin perspective really fascinating, along with starseeds and similar identities.
I spend quite a lot of time thinking about utopian hypotheticals and what they suggest about people, individually or en masse. Specifically, I like to consider how our creative inclinations allow us to imagine the sorts of worlds we would *like* to live in - would voluntarily be born into - and how sharply these imagined worlds contrast with the coercive one we find ourselves living in. Attenuated by finitude and the material demands of the everyday, we make a lot of concessions regarding acceptability, but we possess imaginations that allow us to a limited degree to imagine preferable worlds.
To be truly desirable, I think a world would need to exist free of death, decay, and intense suffering. Existence would be this infinite, ever-expanding present wherein entities would be free to engage in self-edifying pursuits. Inconvenience could still exist in some manner, as well as negative reinforcement, but the intensity would be muted relative to what we encounter in our world (e.g. one could experience thirst to a limited degree, but it would never reach agonizing levels of intensity nor be truly existentially threatening). Challenges and problems could exist, but they'd be voluntarily engaged with and present as opportunities for recreation.
Generally speaking, to me utopia would present a boundless array of opportunities for perceiving entities to *voluntarily* engage with the world around them. In many ways, I see this notion of utopia reflected back at us as a species in things like video games or the internet. We are granted the latitude to engage in low-stakes problem solving and to exist in ways we specify. To that end, I am very interested in alternative forms of spirituality as well as the various *kin identities that abound here on DreamWidth or similar sites.
I don't think I personally identify as any sort of kin, but I deeply sympathize with the feeling of being *other*, and I've always found the other/fictionkin perspective really fascinating, along with starseeds and similar identities.
