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https://twitter.com/owenbroadcast/status/1825885558641475694thats it. i like this definition because its brief, and cuts right to the heart of one of the most broadly and confusingly used terms online these days. it really pins down the vibe of "postmodernism is just ... like... taking things apart, sort of, i guess", that you get online
https://twitter.com/marlene4719/status/1824476348129185814you watch a movie or read a comic book, and they show you “propaganda” in that universe. its usually something like “this war is good”, and narratively, that convinces people that the war is good.
https://twitter.com/inlandcaguy/status/1823063244636086341children are one of the flashpoints for this because they cant really consent to anything or control their life. thats why theyre useful in ethical thought experiments
https://twitter.com/ericandre/status/1821607312127385918"being weird" is characterized by being unintelligible or off-putting to the average normal person. so when a normal person tries to be weird, they naturally just become unintelligible and off-putting - because from their point of view (outside of it), thats what being weird is.
https://twitter.com/avischiffmann/status/1818284595902922884
https://twitter.com/robertlasagna1/status/1816088362786144518this particular comic started in the 90s. this means you're about... 80% of the way in, the world and characters are established, and then tech world kicks in - suddenly they have phones, social media exists, it just opens up into their world. just like it did in real life.
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1813611464617492722my prediction is that most people will engage with this upon typical culture war lines, as you see above. perhaps this is correct or incorrect, its irrelevant to what i have to say - because, maybe uniquely, this confluence of issues really defies that sort of analysis, at all.
https://twitter.com/karasmarsh/status/1797687625589133711things dont just exist eternally in a static state in this sphere: so, every day, you are creating that job. you don’t realize it, but you are. if you weren’t, it would just decay or go away or be destroyed. so, youre creating your job every day without realizing it.
https://twitter.com/tomchivers/status/1792948364759236926he basically claimed that he could sit (at least a significant percent of his) patients down in a room and go through a script, like “i am going to start explaining something to you - here’s what the voices are going to tell you to do”: first they would tell patients to leave.
https://twitter.com/reddit_lies/status/1783441271815610609in general for a lot of hands on “ok, how does this actually work though” questions, its way easier to find out what youre not supposed to think than it is to get a clear pinned down few sentence answer. the ramifications of this model have really only just recently started (imo)
https://twitter.com/RetroTechDreams/status/1782100995788455954jordan peterson really got his whole thing locked into a single meme: "clean up your room". whats lesser known is what the second step was: make it beautiful. the idea was that by trying to make something look nice, you would then be forced to be open to harsh personal criticism