3/ really perceiving and envying is someone who does not have a neurotic inner life where they WORRY about how they're perceived. The rugged guy loading his pickup truck with hay bales LOOKS like he's just focused on the task at hand, and knows who he is...something the viewer
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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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Ah but see I can instead log into Bramble-Puller Simulator 4 and click on the brambles to pull them out of my digital yard, which results in a number on the screen increasing & a little achievement box popping up that makes my brain release the good chemicals. Why *go outside?*
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Just to add onto the theory, there's a multi-billion dollar industry that's built around creating experiences for people that promise to help them achieve a flow state without actually having any actual end result or physical product to show for it.
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