Beloved pop fiction perpetuates beloved pop fiction culture
http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/reading-fifty-shades-linked-to-unhealthy-behaviors/ …
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@St_Rev I think I largely agree with all of this, but I'm inclined to want to qualify it somehow. Can we say perpetuation is real on an… -
@St_Rev …individual scale, if not a societal one? An alcoholic who goes to a bar every night perpetuates their condition—even accelerates it -
@St_Rev So maybe it's some sort of agency modeling question. The "perpetuates norms" model discounts important parts of the equation (?) -
@blue_traveler If I claimed praying to Ra "perpetuates" the sun rising in the morning, you'd call bullshit. But that thinking is everywhere. -
@St_Rev Alright, these are good points. I'll think about this. -
@St_Rev reminder to myself to ask what you think about accelerationists, general impressions, when I'm next awake - End of conversation
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