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 …
-
-
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.
Show this thread -
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 >
Show this thread -
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 -"
Show this thread -
10/ counter argument saying that my theory is crap: the religious wars were pretty un fun
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
agreed ; similar and overlapping arguments!
End of conversation
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.