We are entering a period of overlapping crises

(hamishcampbell.com)

28 points | by speckx 1 hour ago

8 comments

  • tengbretson 2 minutes ago
    Seeing what "we" need to do to build a better future as described by an author that doesn't appear to have a wife, children or any attachment to a permanent home reads to me a lot like an offseason blog post by a Chicago Bears fan talking about what "we" need to do to get better next year.
  • monneyboi 47 minutes ago
    We are entering? I feel like we've been there for years.
    • onethought 19 minutes ago
      Honestly there are writings from the greeks, romans, enlightment, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s... That read just like this.

      At some point, this view point, and this predicament is just "The Human Condition".[0]

      [0] That's not a excuse to not try to fix the broken things around us. But perspective is important.

  • haunter 35 minutes ago
    Once in a lifetime events every single year since the 2000s
  • bryanrasmussen 41 minutes ago
    I don't feel like it's AI, but I do get the feeling of reading someone dipping into the bucket of their local version of English slang, and maybe doing some context switching that they cannot handle as adeptly as could be hoped, to the detriment of the article's readability.

    I suppose there are probably people out there snorting in disbelief and saying "you're one to talk", but that's how I feel.

  • mediumdeviation 51 minutes ago
  • gaiagraphia 42 minutes ago
    Is it just me, or are the amount of hashtags quite jarring in the piece?

    >But any one with any sense can see there is no #stupidindividualism exit from #climatechaos. There is no technological #dotcons platform that allows us to escape social relationships.

    • GaryBluto 38 minutes ago
      The whole thing reads like a bizarre, vaguely schizotypal manifesto, complete with it's own confusing form eccentricities.

      I checked the "hashtags" link and was met with the following: "Hashtags are a critique and a rallying cry to gather round. They are the protest banners of the openweb"

      Nothing says protest banner of the "openweb"(?) like a convention invented by Twitter.

      • Terr_ 27 minutes ago
        Or IRC channels.
        • GaryBluto 20 minutes ago
          You are right that hash symbols were used for IRC channels but I'm almost certain that hashtags were a Twitter invention.
    • baron3dl 3 minutes ago
      when i got to the second hashtag, i scanned the following paragraphs, saw it's littered with them, and just hit the back button.

      #'s are for signaling root access, and bash comments.

      edit: and also IRC channels.

    • grebc 39 minutes ago
      I had trouble reading it because they kept drawing my eyes to them, so I stopped.
  • longitudinal93 48 minutes ago
    "Then on the left the is a matching fantasy, we romanticism collapse, but it is not automatically progressive."

    Should be "romanticise" rather than "romanticism".

    • WaltPurvis 35 minutes ago
      That's only one of the misspellings or incorrect words in this fairly short post. There are also numerous grammatical errors. Perhaps it's intentional, to show it wasn't written by AI, but I think more likely it's just sloppy and rushed. (The thinking in the piece seems as sloppy and rushed as the writing.)
    • nh23423fefe 36 minutes ago
      Literally full of spelling errors and omitted words and subject verb disagreement and awkward phrasing. To say nothing of the trash logic. Verified human everyone!