what if everything that's going wrong is because the late 20th century prosperity waves subjected society to a burden of nouveaux riches unprecedented in history and the resulting self-justification frenzy and preference falsification cascades drove everything completely insane
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Replying to @chaosprime
>preference falsification cascades please explain?
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Replying to @tentaclelesbian
check this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification … when i add 'cascade' to this concept i'm talking about how the more people are doing it, the less safe it is to not go along with them, and the more likely additional demands for it will be made
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Replying to @chaosprime
Are you saying preference falsifications driven by need to justify their new found wealth? That's the part where I'm not confident in my understanding of your tweet.
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Replying to @tentaclelesbian
oh, yeah. i'm implicitly claiming that people finding themselves in an elevated social position tend to frantically try to demonstrate that they're The Right Kind Of Person to enjoy that elevated social position, which involves extensive preference falsification
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especially when their upbringing is middle class, the middle class being hilariously devoted to the idea that success is allocated based on being The Right Kind Of Person
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