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[edle_gestalt]

Good afternoon. I am sure we are well aware of how currency operates here by now. I cannot say I am particularly fond of it as a necessity but I would appreciate any input anyone may have on the following.

Has anyone thought to perhaps harness this technology for whenever we return to our respective homes? In my home world, I primarily function as a peacekeeper and mediator. Before this became my purpose, I would attempt to avoid conflict through strategic marriage. I have been reluctant to admit that this caused more trouble than it avoided, but to this day I still hold the ideal that peace can be kept through agreeable relations.

Here, agreeable relations provide energy and currency, both of which are sources of conflict, debate, and an imbalance in quality of life where I hail from. It has even been the cause of violent conflict. Vulgar though it may be, I believe that it is human nature to value such agreeable relations as a far better incentive against such conflict than most anything else. Cash is an incentive that often wins out in the end, even when one is faced with peril. But here, we find that cash, renewable energy, and -- for lack of a better term -- intimacy, are all combined into one. Though I personally find the concept QUITE distasteful, it is my experience that most other living beings subscribe to the idea that "sex sells." What, do you think, may happen if humanity were faced with a reality in which it not only sells, but buys, and provides? It is my belief that such a system would put an end to all known conflict in locations where it is not currently in place.

How do you suppose we might preserve whatever we learn here, and bring it back home, so that agreeable relations can perhaps lead us to a post-scarcity society?



[tl;dr how we gonna fuck our way to world peace thanks for coming to my ted talk]

Comments

[edle_gestalt]

That's not exactly the same concept, though, is it? It's a much nicer one, granted, but it's not really equivalent.

[hopefanatic]

It can be! Hope is all in the eye of the beholder, really, so one's interpretation can be different.

[edle_gestalt]

I worry that blurring the definition between that and hope is risky. If one finds hope in that, that's all well and good, but if one has chaste hopes in mind and is surprised with a vulgarity, I don't think it's very proper or pleasant.

[hopefanatic]

But isn't that just how all of life is?

[edle_gestalt]

... I cannot argue with that.

[hopefanatic]

Because I'm right! Life is just a constant cycle of people scrambling to find meaning and hope through the despair of the world.

[edle_gestalt]

This is entirely true. But I wouldn't willingly mislead by conflating "hope" and ... that. I don't think many people would find it palatable to see an advertisement with a woman's bosoms enticing the eye only to look down and see a philosophical leap about how it's a quest for hope and meaning.

[hopefanatic]

It doesn't have to be a philosophical leap, but I suppose not everyone can think so broadly. It's a shame.

What were your ideas, then?

[edle_gestalt]

If I had any, I wouldn't have said "sex sells" to begin with.

"In attraction we find profit?" Better, but it doesn't have any ring to it.

"Profit in instinct." I like it a bit more.

[hopefanatic]

So you asked for ideas without anything to contribute and bounce off of others?

"Profit in instinct" isn't too bad but could be just as easily misconstrued, couldn't it? Some people would consider murder to be a human instinct.

[edle_gestalt]

If all it's going to get is being shot down, then maybe I would have been better off.

Profit in desire, then. It sounds enticing but it isn't so explicit.

[hopefanatic]

That is at least more straightforward without offending anyone's delicate sensibilities, I suppose.