It is fascinating how much the dominant societal narratives have changed in the last five years. It is not that we understand the world now better than before. It is incomprehensible in totally novel ways.
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Replying to @FPallopides
class, gender, money, international relations, democracy, liberalism, AI, sex, romanticism, ideology, media, deep state, unilateralism, justice, empathy, intelligence, education, mentoring, status, porn, cultural identity, silicon valley, freedom of expression, civil rights...
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Replying to @Plinz
Where do you put the odds that some of these impressions may be due to you changing bubbles and/or expanding your bubble? (sorry for prodding, but this is central to my interests)
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Replying to @FPallopides
Here is a symptom, some of the concepts that were irrelevant or inexistent to the mainstream before 2010: deep learning, fake news, cultural appropriation, blockchain, rape culture, sjw, transphobia, Wikileaks, BLM, alt right
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Replying to @Plinz
Most of these sound pretty ephemeral and faddish to me - not in that they're irrelevant, but in that they're the sort of concerns that move in & out of mainstream discourse all the time, rather than major paradigm shifts of any kind. Also, here's "rape culture" up to 2008:pic.twitter.com/EHnkdXDdJt
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I just used Google trends:https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rape%20culture …
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Replying to @Plinz
wow, now I feel old-fashioned for resorting to ngram
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