Excellent interview of @0x49fa98 https://twitter.com/parallaxoptics/status/1327920794735955968 …
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2/ > all narratives are false” except by just stubbornly sticking to one out of sheer will and tenacity. This also in Nietzsche, and for that matter, in David Foster Wallace, when he declared that the next thing would be people who pushed past irony into “new sincerity.”
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3/ > woke and AltRight (a dead name for a living phenomenon) are both examples of new sincerity. We don’t care what’s true or false, we know what we need to be true for our own survival, and we aren’t terribly worried about justifying it within a global, rational framework.
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4/ > The most self-aware wokies and righties all know this. That itself might be called a postmodern insight, but the course of action it prescribes is distinctly not postmodern; it’s a rejection of the postmodern by means of it. “The only way out is through.”
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5/ This is a great insight,, and
@0x49fa98 puts his finger on something that has been bothering me about some smart people i know who are all right or AR adjacent: they say breath takingly stupid things, on occasion, that I know they are too smart to believe.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread
6/ And when I call them on it, I get either emotional screeching, or defenses of rhetoric and meme magic. They don't care about truth, they care about sincerity, about what must be true to let them survive. Some weird parallel to "serious, but not literal."
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