therefore the first task of any subculture is achieving illegibility then reconciling it with maintaining critical mass of participation
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incidentally, neopronouns are the AK-47 of cultural illegibility — cheap, simple, reliable — and boy is the mainstream culture mad about it
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in conclusion, newfags can't triforce. thanks for listening to my TED talk
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You do not know how much of an urge I had to make a triforce. I feel like the worst right now, I hope you are happy.
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delighted tbh
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Look, it fills me with an odd amount of pride to remember some memes before they drifted mainstream and lost their initial meaning.
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as well it should! being a geek rather than a mop or a sociopath is something to be proud of https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths …
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This is a fascinating article. As a writer who tried to create a splinter community for a fetish writing community and found myself>
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it's precisely [TARGET DETECTED] at issue. illegibility is what prevents a responsible pluralistic culture from identifying you as a threat
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of course, you can just identify whatever isn't legible to you as a threat, but this tends to get you called a psychotic murderous dictator
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since it also makes you one
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and all you actually achieve is forced evolution of stronger technologies of illegibility, more steganographic than cryptographic
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so in the information age it's obfuscation that's power
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