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Michael W. Taft
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Michael W. Taft

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🦇 Sentient comet 💫 Meditation freak 🙏🏻 Teacher 🍄 Author 🎙Podcaster 📚 SF nerd 🤖 Serial comma enthusiast 🌏 Raised by wolves 🐺 Bad influence 🧝🏻‍♂️

Oakland, CA
deconstructingyourself.com
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    Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas 6 Dec 2017

    As a culture we only celebrate people who’ve taken something to an insane, pathological, and/or destructive level.

    4:39 PM - 6 Dec 2017 from Oakland, CA
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    • Offbeats WE Gather evolving to BE HARMLESS tsog-kyi-chog daronlarson Mike Leffler Derek Tim Gaweco Self′ Adam Glinglin made of clay
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      2. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        Being slow, subtle, and measured is rarely rewarded.

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      3. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @euvieivanova

        Yes, or just being simple, happy, and kind. Although, to be fair, these are all their own rewards, it still blows me away how our society only celebrates the most diseased/unbalanced minds.

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      2. Jay Vidyarthi  🎴‏ @jayvidyarthi 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        this is super interesting. our attention is drawn to novelty. in a culture where ego drives us to be the center of attention, abnormality = novelty. so in some ways the culture drives a discontent with the everyday. hm.

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      3. Rebecca Pardo‏ @msrmp 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @jayvidyarthi @OortCloudAtlas

        we also have a fetish for the banal, i think; the combinations of these things yield some weird cultural outcomes eg reality television

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      4. Jay Vidyarthi  🎴‏ @jayvidyarthi 7 Dec 2017
        Replying to @msrmp @OortCloudAtlas

        I always found it interesting that reality television in its original form (Japan) very much celebrated the banal. But when translated to western audiences, it became a different animal, where "reality" is exaggerated and celebrities are created.

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      5. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas 7 Dec 2017
        Replying to @jayvidyarthi @msrmp

        A typical “success” story goes: "I wrecked my family, body, mental health, friendships, was an asshole to everyone, took a steaming dump on the world, and now I’m a pinched miserable shell of a human, but it was worth it because I achieved X.” Cue the worshipful video collage.

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      1. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 6 Dec 2017
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        But mostly because we liked the results.

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      1. Frank Crawford‏ @francislymond 7 Dec 2017
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        Part of it is that we are fascinated by people who take things to an extreme that we would never approach in our (in some ways) smaller, safer lives. E.g. monk in cave 30 years, or dude doing 50 consecutive triathlons day after day in each state or whatever.

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      1. Cyber Mookse‏ @ElotropicM 6 Dec 2017
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        But this doesn’t include trump yeah?

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      1. Cyber Mookse‏ @ElotropicM 6 Dec 2017
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        Lol

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