Will Manidis

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

strongly convicted that Baudrillard would have ended up as manic as Nick Land if we lived literally one decade longer

not that I disagree but at least baudrillard writes clearly... I have 0 clue what nick land is talking about half the time