>>22918613>>22918730>>22918650This is a direct result of the "enframing" tendency of technology, or Gestell, as cited by Heidegger. Technology is said by Heidegger to be an orientation to the world that views everything in it as raw material, or "standing-reserve". A wood farm makes wood, which can be burnt to make iron, which can be used to build railway tracks, which can be used to move resources... There is no end in itself; everything is seen as a means to an end.
Because of this viewpoint, nothing is built if there is something more efficient; instead it is seen as a waste of resources. This is embodied most in the repeated consensus dismissal of PPP once a better alternative was made available;the acceptance of this worldview has had long-lasting, rippling effects on all the holos, where no one will build something new if it doesn't do something "better". And they do not have the skills to organically build something better - at the most they reach for a guide, which then instantly leapfrogs the server in that area to that cutting edge and leads to stagnancy once again.
Is everything lost? Not exactly; not everything on the server is technology, after all. Showpieces such as the resident KFP or the fountain Bae was trying to build still exist. But even then the omnipresent technological mindset that binds the normal world eats at their minds; it forces them to consider these things as trivial and worthless, for they provide no resources to be used in the further propagation of resource gathering.
Unfortunately, it does not seem that Heidegger has an answer; as always, the cop-out is that by illuminating this danger, humanity may realize that it does not always have to see the world in these terms, and may reinvent its own vocabulary for experiencing it on different, more fulfilling ways. So perhaps the girls will be able to one day find a satisfactory answer for themselves and chat, to be able to build structures and redstone contraptions that stand on their own, with sufficient meaning, regardless of there "already being something better on the server".
tldr; Holos should take some inspiration from the Amish and chill out
