hey apropos of absolutely nothing what would it take for me, personally, to become mark zuckerberg's personal coach / therapist / shaman
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which frankly is one of the most terrifying things i've ever heard and really put the entire history of human civilization in a new light. this has been haunting me, honestly
oh, i forgot an important component, more specifically the claim (IIRC) is that one of the main ways a collection of cultural memes stays stable over time is by traumatizing its hosts into stifling their creativity so they don't fuck with the memes
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it's easy to think of trauma as a thing that is like intrinsically bad but from this standpoint the main point is that trauma keeps your responses to situations relatively fixed. so trauma-based culture cannot keep up with rapidly accelerating technological and cultural change
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lemme see if i get this trauma started out as a memetic parasite it probably helped civilizational cooperation, and so didn't get selected out of existence but now that things change to fast, it's maladaptive
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reminds me of Dennett's idea that consciousness is a culturally transmitted memeplex
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