[wwweston]

But would you have enough to buy your favorite society and run it into the ground?

Re: embracing aesthetics while misunderstanding ethos - I've noticed this about religion too. There is frequently a divide between subscription to deep ethos and social aesthetics and the latter often seems more popular.

This is especially puzzling to me with Christianity considering that a fair bit of the New Testament (and some of the Old) appears to be a criticism of exactly this problem and attempts to transcend it.

It might be that style over substance is a long-running human problem.

[Philpax]

> But would you have enough to buy your favorite society and run it into the ground?

If you pull it off right, you can get a 2-for-1 deal on the social network and parlay the result of your ketamine bender into a role as Shadow President.

[gnuser]

I’m taking it meta. Not only am I properly embracing high-tech, low-life in game world, my design is of a metaverse preemptively designed to learn the lessons to avoid a corporate dominated abusive version.

[tbrownaw]

> It might be that style over substance is a long-running human problem.

Standardization is useful for scaling.

[CMCDragonkai]

Understanding the ethos isn't necessary for reproducing behaviour. Someone has already worked out the why, just do what they tell you do.