“And the only way to reboot history is to figure out new beings to be. Because that’s ultimately what beefing is about: a way to avoid being, without allowing time itself to end.”
@vgr on forgetting the internet culture war by remembering purpose:https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/ …
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Interesting (albeit horrifying) reading the comments on this. They boil down to “but MY side of the culture war is CORRECT, so telling people to stop is EVIL.” I get this quite a lot too.
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Venkat notes “the culture war” is not actually about culture, or politics, or indeed anything other than itself. Internet conflict is non-referential addictive behavior.
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@vgr’s analysis with@peternlimberg’s Culture War 2.0. Peter sees the bipolar War 1.0 replaced by multipolar conflict among many ideologies; Venkat sees a meaningless brawl in which no one has genuine commitments. (Hope I’m not mischaracterizing either here)4 replies 1 retweet 12 likesShow this thread -
This is silly. How many times do we have to do this before we realize humans being social—even beefing—is always interesting to humans?pic.twitter.com/nKKG5ganxS
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Always interesting, yes, but not always enjoyable or productive. We can make choices, as individuals and as societies, about how to compete for status. Good choices produce the best humans are capable of; bad choices produce the worst. https://vividness.live/2015/10/05/buddhist-ethics-is-advertising/ …pic.twitter.com/Ozvq8sxmve
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We live in this moment where the NYT, WSJ, and WaPo collude in restraint of trade, using “journalism ethics” to prevent competition from partisan news orgs and everyone is like: “I cannot imagine change.”
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