Natural Limits (Michael Sacasas)

Can we consider our limits as a gift? Michael Sacasas and Henry discuss an understated concept in our modern times, namely our limited nature. We are limited in our ability to control others (parenting), our speech (social media), and our bodies (morality). We pass through a mix of (sometimes heavy) topics: violent games and virtue ethics, parents as gardeners rather than carpenters, the issues of unprecedented scale, modernity as the application of technique, our inclination to believe more is better, and the art of dying. Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/limits.

Part 2: https://hopeinsource.com/convivial.
Youtube version (unedited): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojoWc1oCeQ
Michael: https://twitter.com/LMsacasas
Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

Headings:

Games and Virtue
Social Gaming
Gardeners and Carpenters
Technocratic Parenting
Capability and Responsibility
Natural Scales and Limits
Two Watersheds
Escalation as Default
Limits as Heresy
Attractive Limits
Iatrogenesis
Being Mortal
Death as a Technical Problem

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