Famous stage 5 thinkers I can name fall into two clusters: 1. Good fiction writers: Steinbeck, Kafka, JGL, Card, David Simon, Orwell. 2. Terrible right-wing pols & spooks: Bannon, Dugin, Surkov, Spencer, Dulles. The commonality is proficiency with narrative as an instrument. https://twitter.com/ankurrsharma/status/976103100800012288 …
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Even then, without a strong immune system you're toast.
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In this model, is the cholera the ideologies themselves? Or is it the distorted perceptions / bad takes on reality that propagate because of the ideologies? I think the latter is a better fit. To synthesize this with the VM analogy, bad memes due to ideologies are like malware.
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yes, I'm modeling ideology as a virulent pathogen transmitted in social commons.
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One that controls your brain, like toxoplasmosis. The thing I don’t love about this analogy is it leaves out the utility of infection. The “predatory meme” model fits that aspect, though: predators are instrumental when domesticated.
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right, multiple metaphors here each doing some work of its own. the nice thing about abstractions is you can mix and match elements.
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Which is meta-fitting, since the gist of S5 is being able to use systems of thought wherever they’re useful and ignore them the rest of the time.
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Though when ranking fit, John’s “ideology-as-OS, S5 cognition as hypervisor” tops my list. Sometimes, a particular OS is needed to accomplish a role, especially in the context of a network of computers running that OS. E.g. I need access to Windows and Linux for work.
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Similarly, I need to be able to step into Christianity when talking to my parents, Intersectional Feminism and Libertarianism around town, and material monism at the hacker space if I’m going to be coherent or persuasive. I need them all to function in a pluralistic society.
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