9/ We have no data at all. Just as the "1950s retvrn" LARPers based all of their knowledge of the 1950s off of TV sitcoms and Coke ads (all of which are constructed and fake), the "peasants were authentic" meme comes from media & assumptions.
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10/ maybe we've always been "too" self-aware / neurotic / feeling like we don't fit in, even tho everyone else does. I don't know.
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12/ 100% agreed the way to break out of the neurotic self-introspection is to (a) stop watching TV (b) stop thinking about yourself (c) DO by "DO" I mean DO something. >>>https://twitter.com/mr_archenemy/status/1483166353670426628 …
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silicon age tulpa @mr_archenemyReplying to @MorlockPdifference between the guy loading his pickup truck with hay and the viewer is that the viewer is *watching (tv)*. I think 3/4 of a century of mass (visual, anyway, not sure to what degree radio contributed) media is increasing neuroticism. social media is gas on the fire.2 replies 0 retweets 17 likesShow this thread -
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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Todd Barrett @thepiclordReplying to @thepiclord @MorlockPJust 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.1 reply 0 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
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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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 …
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Agreed on both counts, although he flips back and forth between trying to own his actual audience *and* the outgroup from his actual audience, to keep the audience nodding along (smugly). Any perception of a coherent plot is going to be post-hoc narrative formation.
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