Post by Randy

18xXxq…a31p Unverified · twetch

Sure. However, @6345 has stated numerous times that the reason he posts here is because it's immutable/permanent.

How is that not materialistic?

An anti-materialist shouldn't care whether his ideas are stored immutably (protecting the ideas) and seen by others, or pissed into the wind and only experienced by himself.

1MsA8b…3dg3 Unverified · twetch

Permanence isn't inherently materialistic

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Replies (7)

18xXxq…a31p Unverified · twetch
Replying to@1MsA8b…3dg3

It absolutely is lol

1MsA8b…3dg3 Unverified · twetch
Replying to@18xXxq…a31p

knowing that something will last longer on chain than anywhere else is just a nice feature, it doesn't mean you are attached to every word you write or that you think it's important – that's a perspective thing.

18xXxq…a31p Unverified · twetch
Replying to@18xXxq…a31p

If I want my ideas to be seen by future generations for any reason, after I die - that's materialistic.

I do, so I'm somewhat materialist.

I don't think it's a bad thing to be somewhat materialistic. We have no guarantees that materialism isn't a good thing in some regards.

1MsA8b…3dg3 Unverified · twetch
Replying to@18xXxq…a31p

Again, a perspective thing. That's like saying because you bought something on amazon you are a "materialist." You can also eat without being gluttonous.

18xXxq…a31p Unverified · twetch
Replying to@1MsA8b…3dg3

There's a massive difference between buying something on amazon and "I want my ideas permanently inscribed for others to see in the future, even after I die"

That's seeking legacy, even if it doesn't happen, regardless of if it's benevolent or not.

That's seeking to protect "your" ideas from vanishing. Seeking to protect "your" ideas from being deleted by the state.

That's materialistic. It shouldn't matter one way or the other if the ideas are stored immutably, or persist, or not, to an actual anti-materialist.

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