| > Almost everyone [on Gemini] is of the same leftist, punk, ecological mindset. I definitively am (my capsule is gemini://idiomdrottning.org and I write about all three of those things) but I often feel kind of alone with that perspective. There's a lot of "let's go Branden" type curmudgeonliness which I'm not into, or weird Time Cube type stuff. I only know of a handful of other leftist capsules (love them ♥). Also, While the merits of left-wing policies and of punk aesthetics can certainly be called into question, criticizing "ecological" is like saying "and the posters on there are subject to gravity! They fall downwards, and they have the gall to live their lives going forwards in time!" We all live on the same Earth and wrecking it affects all of us. > Maybe if you don't have many leftist friends you'll find it more novel,
but I found it full of the same talking points and little else. It's not my intention to re-harp on the same points already made a thousand times but to instead afford a new way of thinking about systems and markets. I try to update older posts rather than make new ones about the same thing. > I also find the place way too judgemental. The community loves to hate on anyone that doesn't share their aesthetic. Here, I can only agree, and I'm often guilty of this, too. I see how people wanna warp or distort the aesthetic (for example, produce spec-breaking sites or accessibility obstacles) but as I try to clarify it I end up inadvertently slamming those who aren't into the whole minimalism brain trip and that's a real problem. |
:( That's unfortunate. I find the leftist stuff a bit repetitive, but certainly more aware than that sort of curmudgeonliness. I guess it's a natural consequence of the growing population of Gemini huh.
> criticizing "ecological" is like saying "and the posters on there are subject to gravity! They fall downwards, and they have the gall to live their lives going forwards in time!" We all live on the same Earth and wrecking it affects all of us
Oh I'm not criticizing the ideology at all. Ecology drives a lot of my personal politics as well. And specifically by "ecological" I mean "ecological punk" (messed up with the comma in my original post) here which I'm referring to as a low-tech/minimalist approach to ecological sustainability. I just find it overrepresented and a bit repetitive on Gemini. I can find myself nodding and agreeing, but few of the posts challenge me to think and grow the way talking with individuals with very different ideas of ecology (say more maximalist approaches) would. At the end of the day, for me, living ecologically sustainably is the goal, not _how_ we get there.