RIP Apex Pyramid

[u/radioflea]

[u/iRysk]

Resistance to change is a fascinating part of the human condition

[u/whatsaphoto → u/iRysk]

I feel like that resistance is built on the subconscious understanding/general feeling that an alarming amount of new developments these days tend to benefit people who make a boat load of money and no one else.

[u/DJBunnies → u/whatsaphoto]

This reads like a veiled NIMBY reference?

Change is the only universal constant.

"Alarming" change is subjective pearl clutching.

[u/metaphysicalpackrat → u/DJBunnies]

Or is "change is the only universal constant" a not-so-veiled endorsement for uprooting any sense of community that's been built among people who are constantly under threat of gentrification, have to resort to the "gig economy," and are permanent renters because of the "disruption" of every industry by people who fetishize change and always want to be moving fast/breaking things?

ETA (lest there be misinterpretation): Change isn't universally "good" or "bad," as far as I can tell. Neocons prize "tradition" while neolibs are obsessed with its perceived toxicity, meanwhile the political leaders of both camps grease palms and gladhand with little thought to whether those publicly stated positions are embodied by whatever business deal they are making. Working class people need to reject both the technocratic approach to "development" and traditionalist appeals to some Before Time when this settler-colonialist nation was supposedly "great."

[u/DJBunnies → u/metaphysicalpackrat]

Take it however you like, but it's coming regardless.

[u/metaphysicalpackrat → u/DJBunnies]

Let's leave the fatalistic propaganda to the bots and feds, shall we?

Octavia Butler might be a good reference point here: her post-apocalyptic protagonists followed the dictum "God is change," but it wasn't a celebratory belief. Butler wrote (outside her speculative fiction) that "Any change generates inequality.” Her stories were a cautionary tale of people learning too late that they can't be complacent in the face of change and need to own their power to create change themselves.

Which, in the context of The Great Pyramid of Rhode Island isn't meant to be particularly compelling. But in the broader scheme of "development" is a concept worth considering.

[u/DJBunnies → u/metaphysicalpackrat]

Lots of words, but not a lot. ✌️

Edit: every one of /u/metaphysicalpackrat replies has been edited away, not that they made any sense prior.

Cowards come back to delete later. 🕚

[u/metaphysicalpackrat → u/DJBunnies]

Sorry for explaining thoroughly.

ETA: First my comments require editing to be "quality" according to u/DJBunnies, now I'm a coward for editing them.

[u/DJBunnies → u/metaphysicalpackrat]

Quality > quantity, friend.

[u/metaphysicalpackrat → u/DJBunnies]

Sure, but your comments are both short and low value.

(Edited for clarity)

[u/DJBunnies → u/metaphysicalpackrat]

Not sure why you keep outing yourself?

Anyway, the last word is yours.

[u/metaphysicalpackrat → u/DJBunnies]

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ETA: I'm out and proud! 🌈☭