/lit/ - Literature

>>14974106
You are so bad at arguing it's unreal.
>It's undeniable that people who eat more vegetables are healthier
(citation needed)

You're just saying that. I don't expect anyone to have a bundle of sources in their back pocket, neither do I. Thing is there is a correlation because people who eat more vegetables are generally more conscious about their diet and health and thus don't eat as much junkfood. You didn't expect me to bring up my previous argument so you latch onto something and instead strawman me into saying that 'unnatural=bad'. Computers are extentions of our cognitive capacity, which is what humans have instead of fast legs or deadly claws. Clothes are an extension of our complicated psychology and prudeness. Our minds are incredibly plastic, thats why people manage to trick themselves into a diet which starves them and has them feeling constantly hungry. Our brains adapt. But we didn't grow an extra stomach or adjusted our gut-length.

>>14784740
>How evolution works is that the weak die off and the strong survive
Strong is only defined by how well any given organism thrives within a given complex system. A complex system is, among others, defined by both unpredictability and robustness. This goes for ecosystems as well, but seeing as us humans have created the spheres we live in to be as artificial as they are, there is a need to use a more abstract term. The system adapts and is robust because each of its parts is that way. Oftentimes the die-off of a certain species, or swings in temperature are not fatal to an ecosystem, but sometimes they are; it's always difficult to pin-point exactly where the foundational building block are. Finding out which these are for our societal system, is what occupies economists, political-theorists and philosophers. However much we emancipate ourselves from nature, our systems will always be encapsulated by it. Strength is defined by adaptability. Who can thrive within the system as well as who can survive any breakdown of that system is strongest over the long run. But this is not necessarily the individual who was strongest within the framework of the earlier system.
This is what Kaczinsky really underlines in his recent work: technology is both a tool and an entity on its own that has gained it's individuality by developing within the framework of human power hierarchies where unity is impossible and division is a given, thus favoring who gets to nuke who first and who manages to turn it's population into yet another tool via propaganda and brainwash. The cold war is the extension of the 'which ape will start using rocks to beat the other's skull first'' and it has never, and will never end.

>>14608059
not jail guy but I would really like to live like Thorou or better yet like Dick Proenneke.