magic has nothing to do with violating the laws of physics. it has much to do with violating *expectations*, and we can reflect on what in our society causes us to conflate the two
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how are you so confident you know the laws of physics anyway it's not like you replicated all those experiments yourself or anything (apologies to the one guy reading this who actually did do that, you're a king and this tweet isn't for you)
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"the laws of physics" *should* refer to your experience of pushing and pulling and bending and breaking and grasping and stretching but it *actually* refers to a specific kind of propaganda that was shoved down your throat in grade school
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in this way "violating the laws of physics" becomes a dream symbol of violating the prejudices with which your culture indoctrinated you. your dreams don't obey the laws of physics and why should they
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in the opposite direction one can attempt to egoically *identify* with the laws of physics; "i am on the side of True Knowledge about the Universe, which was revealed to me by a textbook i was told to read in high school, the True Source of All Knowledge"
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this is the central feature of neil degrasse tyson's tweets that makes him so insufferable. i have been stewing on how best to express how much i hate this about his writing for ages
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but let us not dwell on small and petty things
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no wait one sec it turns out i too am small and petty
neil degrasse tyson wants Truth to be about space because he does not want to look at the earth; he wants Truth to be about the vast emptiness of the universe because he does not want to look at fullness
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[half-heartedly] tyson's "most astounding fact" talking point is that we *are* the universe, that the matter in our bodies comes from the scattered enriched guts of supernova, there is no distinction between far away and near because we are it and it is us
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i'm happy to dunk on tyson for being annoying when he's annoying, but he also gets it, he doesn't not get it
mostly I think he uses twitter for raw shitposting / triggering people for maximal outrage, but his sincereposts are legit imo
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to be fair to your pov, tyson DOES post absolute shitfuckery, which kondo doesn't
tyson is very "duality of man", at his best he is sensitive and thoughtful but he can also be snarky and dismissive etc
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3. Neil Tyson's criticism of Richard Dawkins: "Being an educator is not only getting the truth right, but there's got to be an act of persuasion in there as well... Here are the facts, and here is a sensitivity to your state of mind. It's facts + sensitivity that creates impact."
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whomst among us i suppose 😂
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