2/ as an example, every pickup truck commercial ever has rugged Great Plans state guys loading hay into trucks, or Texas welders pulling up to a job site ...and the viewership perceives these [ paid actors ] as representing authenticity. ...and by that, I think, what they're >
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13/ you can sit on your couch and worry if you're a Real Man™ or not. You can buy Wrangler jeans and a Carhartt jacket and then sit on the couch and worry if you're a Real Man™ or not. ...or you can go pull invasive brambles out of your back yard and burn them.
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14/ Q: ah, so, Travis, you're saying that the act of pulling brambles, not the clothing, makes one a Real Man™? A: no, not at all. I'm saying that concentrating on pulling brambles leaves you little mental effort for stupid things like worrying if you're a Real Man™.
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15/ 95% agree and not just "how they are being perceived" but "how they are perceiving" without Keanu in John Wick and Kevin Costner in Yellowstone, there are not abstract super-stimulus identities to aspire to / fall short ofhttps://twitter.com/mr_archenemy/status/1483167522216194050 …
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16/ yep one doesn't need to posit a conspiracy or evil intent, but merely not emergent phenomena * using a cowboy to sell trucks generates profits, and profits pay for marketing, thus marketing will exist ...vs...https://twitter.com/thepiclord/status/1483172474544087042 …
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17/ * pulling brambles in your backyard is good for you, but generates no profits to pay for advertising, thus marketing will not exist from this emerges a sampling bias: 100% of marketing you consume will come from industries that generate profits & sell you "fixes" for ennui
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18/ I meant selection bias, not sampling bias. :(
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19/ where I disagree w TLP is: * I don't think that there's a PLOT; I think it's all just emergent * there is something about TLP's tone that very much bugs me and
@St_Rev elsewhere put his finger on it: TLP is a manipulator and tries to "own" audiencehttps://twitter.com/SagerDM/status/1483174193202143240 …Show this thread
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the RETVRN thing is because the further back you go the less people's identities were influenced by their worries about how they were being perceived by increasingly large numbers of people watching them (or people like them).
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