Will Manidis

this has pernicious consequences beyond the tired narrative of media control of populations - nobody is in control of the media at this point, that’s the whole point of “the revolt of the public”

for one, the culture can easily equate talking with doing - the energy for radical action is instead channeled into ‘’’radical’’’ discourse. true believers of course don’t just talk but acthttps://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1134887814770774017 …

an interesting thought is whether this transition in the culture has a role to play in the productivity slowdown since 1971 - producers end up talking instead of doing. cultural factors are hard to measurehttps://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1326632891283988480 …

in a way, chaos_history.txt channels this energy

another pernicious effect is that people who are doing things become the same, culturally, as fictional characters. in a media produced culture everything is equally fictional.

Baudrillard is leaping off these tweets: reality collapses into fiction collapses into reality collapses into fiction

he anticipated it but i’m not sure he knew what it would be like to actually live in it