Anxiety over commodification is very, very old, and tends to miss the upsides of commercial society. Intellectuals, by our nature, focus on problems -- often to the point of creating problems where (perhaps) there were none before. Happily "dopamine fracking" will probably not metamorphose into another menacing sounding anti-commercial phrase. There are enough already.

If you are sympathetic, or even curious, about the advantages of commercial society Deirdre Mccloskey's bourgeoise trilogy is an excellent place to begin.

You could argue that anxiety over climate change is somewhat old, and yet I'd argue that there's ever more evidence the problem is real. Just because the direction of travel was identified a long time ago, it doesn't mean that it's desirable or impossible to change.

It is noteworthy that this is a German source and German culture is by default pessimism and malaise.

As per info on the site, author is not German and does not live in Germany (Russian living in Poland). Apparently, his name however is "German".

That would be more of a Russian worldview

German culture is more or a romanticist "Sturm und Drang" kind

Who is "they"? Rabelais? Mozart? Alas many of us humans DO find poop to be funny, forgive us fallen shit stained beings.

I'm more of a comedic vomiting guy myself, e.g. "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs"

I mean, really, what’s funnier than a monkey flinging poop?

A devil with a giant bare ass flinging pork butts and taters with a catapult to an anthromorphised cow and a chicken, whose parents are only pairs of legs.

Literal drug addicts making your kids eye-food, then came the shock '00s

What are the human rights costs of a human rights regime constituted by unelected bureaucrats seeking power over society via moral posturing?

It is less exciting than religious fundamentalism!

This is untrue, the book is filled with incidents of motorcycle maintenance. Perhaps you have not read it? The second chapter centers around a complex issue involving a piston seizure:

"“I remove a glove with my teeth, reach down and feel the aluminum side cover of the engine. The temperature is fine. Too warm to leave my hand there, not so hot I get a burn. Nothing wrong there.

On an air-cooled engine like this, extreme overheating can cause a “seizure.” This machine has had one-in fact, three of them. I check it from time to time the same way I would check a patient who has had a heart attack, even though it seems cured.”

This is an inaccurate paragraph which should have been edited better:

"When Europeans began to draw on ancient precedents in the Renaissance, they did so loosely and freely, and each country did so in its own way, such that French, German, Spanish and Italian Renaissance styles are highly distinct from each other. These national renaissance traditions continued in various forms for over three centuries. There was then a brief period of international neoclassicism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, after which European architects mostly returned to their national idioms. "

1. Renaissance architecture began in Italy, and was copied internationally, with variations, but it still forms a single international style, as did the Gothic and Baroque. 2. This account leaves out the Baroque completely, another international style with high unity and some level of difference. 3. Some damage gets done with these crude reductions; we lose sight of our cultural heritage and replace it with a crude inaccuracy.

The AI writing patterns here are obnoxious on both a sentence by sentence level and at the level of overall meaning and content. Because a machine wrote this, lacks human intelligence, so is not worth reading.

I read the text myself and checked it with pangram, it's 95% plus human written (people hate hundred percent so the discount). So I'm asking myself if it is ragebait or Idiocracy. I know that's harsh to say, but throwing in written by AI is harsh as well. (Analysis: Pangram believes that this document is fully human-written https://www.pangram.com/history/c59610e0-aba7-469c-b762-21f7...)

I wrote that piece, and I am human. BTW, AI checkers are garbage. Even though your stat is heavily in my favor, I urge you not to use that stuff.

It is not rage bait. It's good-faith commentary on how a movement has become lost.

Thanks for the reply. Um. In this particular text, I tend do disagree.

I wrote this. I am a human.

It would be worth thinking harder before moralizing.

I wish this was written by hand and not created by an algorithm that recycled cliches and presented single data points as decisive. But...it's 2026?

You're absolutely right.

I wish they'd at least use something other than ChatGPT. Its "voice" is absolutely grating.

Because the international order is fundamentally anarchic, while domestic orders are (supposed to be at least) nomic, structured by law and rights. Yes, there are attempts at creating international law, but these amount to treaties more than a structured, visible, governing law.