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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I will not justify any of this, this is an exercise in speculative description
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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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This is good because we are idiots
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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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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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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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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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Presidents likely lost this influence for same reason no pop star after 2000 could acquire anything near the influence over mass culture as the Beatles, Springsteen, Michael Jackson, U2, or Madonna. The Internet & social media fatally fractured prior culture centralized by TV.
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To that point, discontent of G1 today—like Church’s example Jon Stewart—is partly explained by their slow loss of the central cultural influence TV enabled. In 2016, the Internet was finally confirmed as the deadly threat G1 feared.. total collapse of Central Cultural Authority.
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I’m GenX. Our experience went from MTV (peak) to first-adopters of AOL chat rooms to Blogging. Boomers seem so out-of-touch partly because their attitudes were much more shaped by impression of universal norms & single narrative suggested by nationwide simulcast mass TV watching.
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