I keep being drawn to reading about a particular flavor of tragedy and I don't know why. Today it was two of the newest developments in #MeToo
(Amber Heard and MLK, search Twitter for the deets) + this heartbreaking thread about veterans:https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1131704927963766785 …
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Two days ago it was something much more obscure: Matilda Park, who ran Aether Interactive, an indie game company that made a few games I was interested in (Arc Symphony, Localhost), alleged on Twitter to have been abusing the rest of her employees, who subsequently left.
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That story stirred up some stuff in me because it felt uncomfortably similar to an experience I had last year. Put me in a weird mood the rest of the day. And all because I really liked the gimmick they used to market Arc Symphony:https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/15/15640938/what-is-arc-symphony-ps1-jrpg …
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I don't have a good articulation of the common thread. Something about fighting over who gets to control the narrative. Or about the trouble you run into trying to reduce everything to good guy / bad guy, or abuser / victim. Still percolating on this.
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
Perhaps this is pointing to unreliability of labels and narratives in general—reminds me of Sarah’s thread on seeing horror/beauty in ecological contexts. I find myself trying to deal with the ambiguity over and over as well
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Replying to @Meta_Aesthetic @QiaochuYuan
Skepticism towards metanarratives is already typical postmodernism, skepticism towards personal/human narratives on the other hand...just the next step? If we’re already lost and nihilistic w/o metanarratives, what would it take to accept ambiguity in personal narrative?
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Yeah, this direction feels very rich to me. Something about confronting emptiness in this particular way.
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