AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber)

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[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

A small collection of my work. Always looking for a reason to make more.

#ArtistOnTwitter #digitalart #conceptart #illustration

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@TheLetsNotDate 'Just some pig' was solid work

[Brooke from Let’s Not Date @TheLetsNotDate]

Every family celebrates Father’s Day differently. I celebrate by convincing men the woman that they just sent unsolicited penile photography to is their daughter.

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@ccwspang @RealPostFolder Yup. And it's funny to mention an auditory processing disorder when that doesn't have anything to do with this but are an ADHD comorbidity

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@shawzsav What's your point? Yup, literally not technically reading. But why say this unless you're engagement farming?

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@Sangeruo @twoodlescore That's Garth Ennis for ya.

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@spongybrain_ @doggirljesus C&H is full of wordy panels and monologues what are you talking about?

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@CDisillusion Y'all, come on. The shadows aren't smooth like the image because the dude is old and has pronounced sagging around the mastoids

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@dennismhogan People hate getting corrected or having their morality questioned. But you can't learn anything or become a better person without that happening to you. 'Well actually,' 'virtue signaling, 'high horse' etc. are just ways we make our shame 'the other person being annoying.'

[Dennis M. Hogan @dennismhogan]

I doubt it. Being on the left means you're constantly annoyed and exasperated by other leftists, but you do it anyway because it's about a commitment to human liberation. It's not a social club

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@hausofdecline @SO3_Clausewitz Oh, I thought the 'fix' was a joke, cuz obviously it's cutting out the actual joke and became much less funny.

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@BadGeef Most people are actually thinking about the sequel when they talk about Surf Dracula. Tonally different than the first movie because it's mostly action but that's how every Surf Dracula has been since. I mean, the first movie didn't even have the talking surfboard.

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@Cornf_Blue It's interesting in that it's barely noticable until it's really apparent. It's only noticable for me on bridges for some reason. Other than that, I think it's a good solution for subtly helping with 3D platforming.

[Arin Hanson @egoraptor]

I understand you are reframing this to say “this is effectively the same as the button scenario, so red is the correct answer to the original scenario” but you will find the reframing has changed the votes dramatically. It is obviously not the same.

The whole point of the button scenario is that pushing a button is 1. an action that every participant must do, and 2. a trivially easy action. Additionally, the status quo (what is effectively a normal day) is not altered until the results are in. The act of pushing red can then be easily internalized as actively killing someone, similar to the trolley problem. In that problem, many people would choose not to act and allow three people to be killed than bear the responsibility of killing a single person actively. When you are pushing red, you are an active participant in potential human death, much like pulling the lever to change the tracks in the trolley problem.

In your train scenario, however, you’ve framed the red button as specifically NOT acting, and the blue button as an act that requires a tremendous amount of physical effort and mental load. The framing of a train coming eliminates any responsibility pushing the red button may have psychologically. It is also, on the face of it, very difficult to picture not seeing other people on the tracks. It’s important to the button problem that you are completely isolated from anyone else, and that is very easy to picture. In the train problem it is difficult to picture being completely alone, and very easy to imagine seeing only a few people tied to the tracks, looking at other people who are “deciding” and trading glances with them like “I’m not going, are you?” It then very easily becomes an obvious choice and you can retroactively convince yourself, oh, these idiots CHOSE to die.

Sure, if you’re a robot, it is logically the same outcome. But we are not robots, we are humans, and we have feelings and empathy and are messy and that is what makes us worth saving. I very often see the argument that “if everyone was logical, they would just choose red. There is no problem until people choose blue.” But that is the thing, we are not logical. We are empathetic. We can imagine someone pressing blue and we can feel bad about that and feel that we don’t want them to die because of it. There IS a problem before anyone presses anything. EVERYONE is being forced to press a button. THAT is a problem.

It is my personal belief that anyone using the “logical” argument for pressing red is simply scared of dying, and is using logic as an out to absolve themselves of the responsibility of being an active participant in the deaths of other humans. I am more certain of this after seeing your reframing of the problem, because as an obvious red pusher, you have positioned yourself completely outside the system. This is a problem that is happening over there, out of your control. Of course you won’t participate, it has nothing to do with you. There’s a big scary train, and you’re somewhere else, already safe. You are not a red pusher in your scenario, you are just some guy observing a bunch of people maybe killing themselves. That is the difference.

And I want to be clear, that is fine. That is very human. That is the whole point of this problem. It is very human to not want to die. It is very human to want to save others. And it is also very human to justify a choice to save yourself when other people’s lives are on the line. There is no right answer.

But if I can say something… I find it a little disturbing that after two extremely viral instances of this problem being posed and both of them resulting in blue winning… people are still arguing for red. Everyone is still alive. Twice. We did it. It’s over. No one needs to be convinced of anything anymore.

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@doxntme Meant to post this here-

https://t.co/2BPEWybudI

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@KwaoBuabeng @doxntme First of all, everybody needs to start on the track for it to be the same. "Death will happen" is what's represented by a train on tracks. Second of all, this would include babies, children, and everybody incapable of complex thought, like the person that made that graphic.

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@KwaoBuabeng @doxntme First of all, everybody needs to start on the track for it to be the same. "Death will happen" is what's represented by a train on tracks. Second of all, this would include babies, children, and everybody incapable of complex thought, like the person that made that graphic.

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@OrevaZSN I remember learning about company towns as a child, where laborers are paid in company bucks and trapped in a cycle of endless debt to the company to afford to live to just keep working and it was a lightbulb moment for me. We're just a big company town with more steps.

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@MountainManRS @ContraPoints Didn't you hear? She posted really hard to vote for Clinton and Harris. Way more than those virtue signaling leftists actively supplying mutual aid.

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

There's no real human being that goes to bat this hard for Democrats. Literal Democratic representatives don't go this hard.

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

@c0mbien I strongly advocated that we not elect a president who would invade them

[AnxietyHelix (read Dawn of Everything by Graeber) @Michael_Dubya]

@zombielord999 @mossy98_ That's so funny, I was going to say the opposite. This looks exactly like how somebody rich, full of themselves, and uptight walks. Really solid. Very Mina.