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Feb 25, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
here are two identical bell curves, separated by one standard deviation

we talk a lot around here about "failure to distinguish the general from the particular", but it goes both ways Image
normal people live here

here, the distributions are only weakly predictive - a lot can happen! what can you say!

if you are normal, your irl experience has taught you that it's not just immoral but *dumb* to generalize too strongly here, where you live

& you are correct Image
if you are +1SD, you live here

you still see a lot of blue here, which tantalizes - clearly blue can do well in this world, the blue you meet seems pretty normal, maybe we are Not So Different

a little harder to defend, but still a good way to live, if you live here Image
if you're exceptional, though, you live here, & the differences are much harder to ignore

this is also where almost all important things happen Image
lots of other newsworthy things happen here, mostly bad/sad things

if anyone has visited a place like this, you can't help wanting it to be different, you're desperate for a solution - it's like hell Image
It's very, very stupid not to generalize here, & when people refuse to it's very frustrating

these places are also where viral social media phenomena happen, so if you live on this segment of the curve & see this all day long, social media is an intensely validating place to be ImageImage
is that a good thing? idk

when the normie tells you to touch grass, he is inviting you to meditate on this Image

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Common factor is a need to retroactively maintain a personal narrative - "Temporal Bioleninism"

Liberal boomers burned down millennia of culture, wealth, & wisdom, sold their inheritance to foreigners, abandoned their families - & all of that was justified by the postwar progressive political project

If that project is repudiated by their grandchildren - if they find themselves, ironically, "on the wrong side of history" - then it all came to nothing

It would mean that, actually, they were just assholes - their ideology was always a self-serving joke, the story of their lives is pure waste & loss & tragedy, they are already in hell

& since the book of their lives is written, & there's nothing they can do about it, they'll do pretty much anything that lets them believe a different story about themselvesImage
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Likewise, these guys are watching American society give up on the ideological project that convinced them to cut off their dicks & wreck their endocrine systems with exogenous hormones

Can't be undone - like the boomers their only hope is to change what it means, in retrospectImage
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Temporal bioleninism is radicalization by one's position in time

These aren't mutant dregs glomming on to Marxism as their only plausible path to status

they might have been other things - but now radical Marxism is the only tolerable mode of understanding their past & present
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down syndrome is a random error and usually renders the person infertile, it's not heritable & cannot be "eliminated" in any permanent way except by continuously killing the kids who get it
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In each case the ruling class (correctly) regarded the fascists as boorish, historically illiterate, & dangerous
This guy was not a Nazi who grew a liberal conscience

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whether he could have done any more than he did is an interesting question Image
Sorry for not clearly labeling the hero and protagonist of 1930s Germany you mongs
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There's a true story here & it's just extremely obvious where the storytellers are not true to it

The stuff that doesn't work sticks out so clearly as an edit, not of a piece with the whole
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The parts where he is "acting" Messianic are where he is most true & believable

The parts where he resists his mission & despairs that they won't let him be a humble ordinary boy ring false

(this is the whole movie in microcosm)
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You can feel so clearly when Bardem allows himself to love the character & inhabit his perspective, & when he is making fun of him, distancing himself

Your godless lib credentials are immaculate, there's no reason & no excuse to chicken out like this Image
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If a category includes everything, it means nothing

"limiting" & "exclusionary" is literally what categories are

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And if there is some ineffable spiritual essence to Scottishness, do we offer govt benefits or franchise only to True Scotsmen?

Obviously not - the purpose of this kind of talk is not to define the category under consideration but to eradicate it

When we talk about a War on Distinction it doesn't just mean moral distinctions, but actually distinctions of any kind

"Noticing" is not a euphemism for noticing a particular set of ideologically inconvenient facts, but noticing as such

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