i like how if you just shitpost relentlessly occasionally you come up with a new view of human cultural history that's completely plausible and upends half of all assumptions ever made about anythinghttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1197018797091250176 …
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feeling the not-so-much-angry-as-nonplussed shade of Philip K. Dick animate me as i throw out ideas that can and will launch a thousand careers in cheap popular media like they’re trash so i can get back to writing robots exploding
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oh fuck me Le Guin’s “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” isn’t about a culture so enlightened and sensitive it can’t bear to let anyone’s art go unappreciated it’s about a culture as relentlessly imperial about other species’ affective technology as we are about their biology
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now, some people might say that since this paradigm will inevitably lead to copyrighted, focus-grouped mass-market corporate emotions, the genie should not be let out of its bottle good thing i’m a motherfucking accelerationist
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if emotions aren't magic that comes from our souls or some irreplicable part of our lizard brains, then they're how we experience some element of our cognition, yeah? some shape of nervous, endocrine, kinesiological, etc activity
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by "teaching entire species" you mean drugging their water supply yeah?
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i mean i wasn't gonna say it
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The phrase "every work of art teaches you how to understand it" has been gnawing at me since shortly after I read this tweet. I know it's not original to me and I can't find the source, hence the gnawing. (Every tweet teaches you how to be gnawed by it.)
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