an individual might be curious or naive but is unlikely to be cruel or destructive. that's group behavior. cruelty is a type of social performance.https://twitter.com/makoalama/status/1131927582625161217 …
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the point of cruelty is often not to make the victim suffer. in this case, the victim is a machine and cannot suffer in any way that we might empathize with (with apologies to robot friend
@eigenrobot). the cruelty is done only for social reasons, to impress other children.2 replies 0 retweets 13 likesShow this thread -
what is being demonstrated here? power? boldness? novel forms of play? what is running through the unconscious mind of a child who engages in performance of social cruelty?
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like two years ago wasn't the item of the day some kind of scholarly look into, like, "feats of daring" as a social exercise, using Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a jumping-off point
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That sounds like a specific thing you are recalling but I don't know what
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yeah, and i'm never gonna find it in the five billion fucking things that have been written about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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