Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Low Desire Society

 Perhaps the goal of the Low Desire Society is to live comfortable and satisfactory lives before they die, knowing that the way the world is going, the byproducts of capitalism will result in an unlivable, intolerable, poisonous would, that this world will hasten their time of death, and so will they will die before they get old.  They reason, therefore, that if most of the human species dies, then the remainder will have a miserable time of it, not just for hours, or even years or even centuries -- or it is even possible that humanity will go extinct, and another species will take our place as the apex predator.

Back to the LDS (not the CLDS = The Mormons), they reason, why put effort into a project that is going to fail:  One possibility is that the project is satisfying, or good-in-itself.  If a person finds pleasure in dancing, or painting or sewing or cooking or writing or anything, it makes no sense to stop doing those things simply because they are not profitable (in the sense of money-making).  Being bereft of these activities may even be detrimental to their health and happiness.  

In the ways that the LDS is discussed, as though they are reincarnated "hippies" of old.

I applaud them, as it seems to me that much of the 5world's suffering is the result of desire and social-technical power.  "Power" being the ability to command and determine the behavior of other people, the more people, the more power.  The more detailed or precise the control, the more power.    

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