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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Aug 2019

      I think I figured everything out Will explicate shortly

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Aug 2019

      eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

      probably be funnier if I left it at that but no OP will deliver after he gets home feeds the cat and ingests a spot of THC forewarning though you shouldn't believe any of it for the usual reasonshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225?s=19 …

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      everything 👏 is 👏 monocausal 👏 and 👏 specifically 👏 results 👏 from 👏 whatever 👏 shit 👏 I'm 👏 on 👏 about 👏 at 👏 any 👏 given 👏 time
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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

      eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

      So, been thinking about this thread a lot As usual monocausality etc But in particular, thinking about the norm-setting class Norms in America for the most part are set and enforced by the American upper middle classhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1157090429570973696?s=19 …

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      very tired and demoralized at work so heres something ive been thinking about an interesting thing that may have happened in the 20th century is that deliberately or not people got really good at wrecking norms
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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

      Or, rather and more specifically, the groups identified in Church's taxonomy as G2 and G1 https://indiepf.com/michael-o-churchs-theory-of-3-class-ladders-in-america-archive/ …

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

      The legwork in implementation and enforcement is done by G3 types in bureaucracies and HR departments G1 types are the mass coordinators Many G2 types either do high-level enforcement, or snicker at exoteric norms privately and also use them as cudgels against uppity G2-3

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

      I will not justify any of this, this is an exercise in speculative description

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

      I don't really believe there's much power here, though. Under normal conditions at least! Generally the production of G1s is pablum and even the food stuff--futile dumb output of dissenting G2s, a class of work in which this thread should be included--is pointedly ignored

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          This is good because we are idiots

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          When I said earlier that UMC *sets* norms I was wrong. They do at present but this is a strange departure from the norm. Historically, the Head of State set norms, with his August authority.

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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          Presidents really did used to have remarkable authority, in the less-than-a-command-more-than-a-suggestion Roman sense Adherence to norms was a prerequisite for office because one power accompanying that kind of authority is unparalleled ability to shift norms after inaugeration

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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          Clinton crushed IDpol for two decades when he condemned Sista Souljah and he was just a candidate Kennedy killed hats by not wearing a hat Reagan made capitalism so popular that the second highest-grossing film of 1984 told the story of three scientists starting a small busines

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        6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          Something very strange happened between 2001, when the Presidency was practically at its apex, and 2016. I don't quite understand what--polycausality??????--and maybe it even started with Nixon. But, the Presidency doesn't really seem to have this kind of influence anymore.

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        7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          Unlike past candidates, Trump didn't even try to make a show of adhering to norms And as President, he doesn't seem to have any power to influence them, at all. The Gentry are in open revolt and he's not well-positioned to break them to his will like Reagan or Bush.

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        8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          This thread is all over the place, I'm sorry but what did you expect after the original post

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        9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          It's time for some game theory

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        10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          Bush crushed the Gentry with 9/11 fever, up and down. Game over. Seems like Reagan did it by setting half of G2 at the throats of G3 bureaucrats and G2 hippies, I imagine it was savage. The power of the Gentry didn't recover for a generation. Trump is . . . somewhat weaker

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        11. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          He didn't even bother to pretend to care about anything G1 said which is the cruelest thing he could do to them, he's far too tasteless and tactless for G2, he openly went to war with G3s who are probably the most invested in norms just existing, and G4--aspirational G3s

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        12. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          Trump's sort-of superpower is that he has no chance of winning the Gentry anyway so he doesn't have to pretend to the norms that are usually used to gently coax them into place when they can't be crushed outright But this is also a crippling weakness in one sense

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        13. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          Specifically, if you were hoping for Trump to push norms back, this looks like a bad bet He can keep Labor and who knows what Elites want, but Gentry control the narrative and they control the norms Trump didn't crush them, and he didn't split them. So--what's going to change?

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        14. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          Anyway that's my univariate explanation for the culture war I'm going to cook half a pound of ground beef, share it with Penelope, and pass out

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        15. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Aug 2019

          pic.twitter.com/t3qbBV7rk7

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