all this "oops did we fuck up society whoa boy we gotta do somethin bout it!!" posturing is like, they are earnestly furrowing the brows and trying to come up with novel solutions
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without realizing they're just playing out the same transformation that took journalism from amoral data merchants to purpose-driven social control mechanism
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the internet has different affordances so it remains to be seen whether the same centralized top-down imposition of truth can work in the same way
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but if it can it's a bit disappointing to think they're going to reproduce what they replaced and completely by accident no less
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when being at the pivot point we are at opens the possibility of defining arbitrary new ways forward, serving any end desired
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this specific thing is the crux of the article I wrote for jacobite, the general idea in other domains is surely going to be a common theme next things I put together
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for instance the economic side of the tech industry, people throw around "serfdom" and "feudalism" because they suffer from small reference pools. there are much riper analogies
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also have been intending on "here's a framework for the past 1600 years of western european political history required to understand modern ideological divides/future directions"
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which I have been stopping and starting on since early 2016, it's a big task and I get stuck on autistically explaining minute ground-level details as "necessary context"
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I don't know if I recommend studying history tbh, on the one hand everything makes a lot more sense, on the other the urge to write five figure word count blog posts is a dread curse
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Not half as funny as watching historically-literate politicians and activitists agitate for, implement, and double down on the same policies that have repeatedly destroyed minority groups and entire societies.
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