My old friend John Miller just introduced me to Adam Curtis & the idea of "hypernormalization." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation …
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Replying to @KarlSchroeder
you're probably familiar with those but cf. hyperreality, kayfabe, consensus reality as a commodity
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Replying to @allgebrah @KarlSchroeder
and some of those realities aren't even sold by any specific entity but are instead tracked in their value by various *coins
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Replying to @allgebrah
Oh, exactly. Been inventing a few notional altcoins myself lately.
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Replying to @KarlSchroeder
neat thing is that when a reality has a notional currency, an economy emerges between its participants and strengthens it
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Replying to @allgebrah @KarlSchroeder
the transition from nation to notion as unit of political cohesion
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Replying to @allgebrah
Yeah, I've been writing about online nations for a while. Did so for the Canadian military a few years back, in "Crisis in Urlia"
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ah, I have the pdf of that lying around, been meaning to read it
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