unfortunately it's just inevitable that lowered production & distribution costs --> democratized access to 'costly' signals --> moral panic about 'authenticity' --> devaluation of those signals... @enkiv2 is right that it's an uphill battle - not only uphill but unwinnable
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Yes, I’m afraid that seems to be right. Hence my claim that the subcultural mode is permanently over. Which is too bad! Then the question is “how can we get some of its benefits in contemporary circumstances,” which I don’t have much of an answer for, but I’m trying :)
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Replying to @Meaningness
Ah, I must have missed this part of your argument in History of..! Maybe one limitation to your argument is that the origin of the problem is resolutely technological, so I doubt it can have have a purely cultural solution. I think bespoke social network design will help
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Replying to @Aelkus @tobyshorin
Yes; I describe subcultures as “inherently parasitic” in my discussion (somewhere). In my ideal world (described in the “prolegomena” page) subcultures would have to take responsibility for doing their fair share of keeping civilization running.
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Replying to @Aelkus @tobyshorin
Right. I’m of that generation, more-or-less, and the subcultural mode is “native” for me. I miss it. And I still enjoy subcultural productions. It’s just that it’s not possible (imo) to take them as seriously as we did in the 80s-90s. Which is sad but more realistic I guess.
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Damn now I’m really wanting to go back and finish that section of the book. It’s ~#3 priority on the queue, after meta-rationalism and nihilism.
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