good / interesting thread RTing the last tweet, which kinda sucks cause now you've got to scroll up, but it's expressly this tweet in the sequence I want to chain off of. It occurs to me that the decline in values in the post-Christian era (we kind of have some, but >>>https://twitter.com/liminal_warmth/status/1221913761348382720 …
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5/ But under fully automated luxury terrestrial communism, there is no God, or if there is, she is very small and very far away, and mostly cares about carbon neutrality and refugees. ...so allegations that you once laughed at a joke about non-binary people back in the 1970s >
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6/ is full and complete social death. Having values that are not subject to mob interpretation, and holding yourself out to judgement only by God means not that you can - with great self discipline - force yourself to go against the mob. It means not even CARING about the mob.
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7/ I don't want to portray this as a COMPLETE THEORY OF EVERYTHING. Obviously whisper campaigns were no fun in 1750 either. ...but because there were metrics other than "what is popular", and it was KNOWN that there were, the feedback loop had circuit breakers.
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8/ Today you can complete n loops of the cycle: "I know that he's racist / transphobic / LITERALLY HITLER / once laughed at a joke about Freddie Mercury / believes in HBD ... and he knows I know and he hasn't apologized. And I know he hasn't apologized, called him out AND YET >
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9/ whereas in a system with reference to outside authority, every loop has a resistor in in, forcing - perhaps - deamplification. "I know that he violated a rule ... well, a rule as far as how I read the bible ... and I SUSPECT that he maybe reads the bible the same way, but -"
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10/ counter argument saying that my theory is crap: the religious wars were pretty un fun
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