An approach to analysis could be looking at the lefts stands toward the dichotomy of military and militia. Because you might find we like one and not the other, and their aesthetics are often similar. For the shoes especially there can also be the form follows function argument.

Also Rock/ Emo (scene) aesthetics filtered through 1-4 decades of time and as such fashion cycles probably factor into it.

All of this is more explaining why the might like the look than explaining why they wear the shoes. Their reason to wear is they like how it looks (on them) genuinely, and I’m trying to explain why they like how it looks.

And their reaction is because Aesthetics and their origins can divorce over time or through a change in context.

Um mal ganz frei zu über-analysieren.

I’m pretty sure most of this is is loosely from “Half earth socialism”, which might not consider us already in post scarcity, but is at least sympathetic to the position while trying to approach the arguably more important factors,- climate change and biodiversity decline- through such a lens.

Examining how our lives could be lived, in accordance with the natural world systems, with a socialist organization of the world economy.

It’s pretty readable as far as these books go, I think it might even be the first explicitly socialist book I read /listened to.

On calories housing and most everyday things we are post scarcity if we ignore distribution. In fact we over commission and under deliver all these things. We over produce food by a factor of around 1.5, housing is much less transferable but even there we’re unbelievably wastefull, energy is basically the only thing that isn’t outright overproduced but really only because when we have cheap energy we just tend to use it, often to produce more stuff.

So imo we are by bookkeeping standards post scarcity, delivery/distribution is just fucked and partially because of that we are creating tons of waste.

We could all live in comfort and those who want to could work less, and none of this would break. The real world economy(things, energy, housing , food, water, logistics capabilities…) is so large and secure it could support the world population. If not for the barriers and assumptions, the intrinsic I’ve got mine fuck you of the systems.

For me that is being there, and I hope that even if you can’t agree on that point, it at least illustrates that we are incredibly close to post scarcity.

I think perhaps in tandem with education - parental or institutional - getting even worse/changing from what you or I might be used to. The shift from search to algorithm as the primary way to interact with the Internet is also a significant factor, the Internet might’ve changed significantly before I was really there, but it certainly changed 2008-2016 mostly in that shift from search to platform/algorithm.

And early zoomers might’ve started their online existence just around the start of that transition while late zoomers, basically only know the Plattform/App/Algorithm world we have today.

If you were to be really cynical about it : The powers at be started losing the control over the messaging specifically to the online world, and managed to grapple it back starting in the mid 2000s just as the size/power of the space became significant. Zoomers might be here or there depending on how and when their first online experiences played out.

I’m just on the very earliest of zoomers, and my cohort largely got hit with 2008 as we were just starting to grapple with politics, and with 2016 right around graduating high school. For me Search was the Internet starting point, Wiki, YT and forums all in service to my curiosity and also there for my entertainment/ placating.

perhaps for someone a bit later it’s all just entertainment, no problem solving, no strange sub subculture, just whatever you desire to see or listen to or read imidiately there, without you even needing to think about it, so accurately getting your attention that it’s perhaps more attractive than thinking, or making a decision.

The bad habit is there for me too, I think some younger people might not be able to even recognize it as such, maybe for them that’s just how the world works.

Because some people can feel the guy who got turned into a Beetle. And it’s sufficiently sad and disorienting to be interesting to read.

You just don’t seem to ever feel Gregor.

To me Goethe is far less interesting, even with Dürrenmatt I question if he might be more boring.

I’m not sure I can say what the difference is between people that like and dislike Kafka, but I have a friend who also thinks Kafka to be boring and another who like me quite likes Kafka, when compared to other classics, and in some ways that are hard to pin down we just seem to think differently. So much so that the guy who doesn’t care for Kafka at times seems like a bumbling fool and at others like a sage of wisdom, he definitely isn’t either of those outright, but our knowledge, our neural pathways might just be different in such a way that even though we are friends and close in age, social and economic strata(and so on), we percive and think fundamentally different.

Kommt halt auf die margins an die die kriegen, verkaufste 3-4 Pfannen haste das Display drinn. Wenn man dafür dann den printer plus das gehickhacke damit rauswerfen kann, kann man sich bestimmt bei bis zu [1-3]00€ schönrechnen.

Verstehe deinen Frust aber gut Ich wünsche mir auch schon länger bezahlbare einks aber das einzige was existiert sind die Supermarkt Dinger, und die sind klein und jetzt nicht so wirklich Benutzerfreundlich wenn man nicht Grade Preise anzeigen will.

Hab mir vork kurzem so’n uralt Sony Reader geholt und das Display und die damit einhergehende Laufzeit ist schon was feines Android 2/3 ist was wild in 2025 aber für 15€ erstaunlich in Ordnung. Die bücher sind bei Anna bzw zlib ja durchaus sehr erschwinglich.

Im richtigen high end sieht man da immer Mal wieder coole Sachen ist aber sicher unbezahlbar A1 Vollfarbe ziemlich wild https://youtu.be/GZovXr3n66E?si=jJKo8AkVmCvUc_KG

How about instead of fighting against strawmen you start fighting against fascist my brother in the divided states.

It was always gonna be harder than just voting anyways, but even then there’s always good reason to fight and to hope.

And about 1/3 of the lit subpixels on mine.

I’m a friend of the flag of the city of Amsterdam. xxx in white on red and black. Venice Berlin and Hamburg are also nice flags but Amsterdam is just so clean.

Removing almost all cars is the only way to effectively be able to walk to places.