looping back to the motivating conversation: it seems to me that we are very much in a sort of epistemological interregnum traditional Knowledge Authorities--universities, media, religion--have lost the mandate of heaven
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i can imagine at least two causes one I talk about here with @collinofzion--this is an old story, but its simply a printing press-to-Reformation analogue universities and media authority relied on distributional barriers, and the Internet broke thosehttps://youtu.be/Gey0RPfR0kQ
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this has been building for a while, and is arguably even older than the internet--look at the proliferation of alternate right media in the 80s, or underground left media in the 60s and 70s the internet and social media in particular blew everything wide open, tho
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covid has been a second and acute disaster for traditional information authority experts fucked it up their mandate was to predict, prevent, and mitigate this sort of unusual event and they failed they failed embarrassingly badly and others did not fail
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things like the replication crisis and rampant politicization have been eating away at institutional academic authority for a while, but that was mostly inside baseball and a slow boil compared to fucking up covid you_had_one_job.jpg
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ask people outside the twitter bubble what they think about this stuff
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Right-wing anon Twitter weirdos were the only people I saw get covid right before the nyc epidemic.
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Replying to @kitten_beloved @eigenrobot
what, that it would hit nyc and New Jersey hard, especially the outer boroughs, and not hit the west coast or other areas of the country that hard?
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No, just the sense that a pandemic would occur at all. Before NYC most media was in denial about this. Afterward it was undeniable.
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oh there were plenty of anon twitter weirdos of all political stripes being all kinds of loud about this in feb
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I have the impression that it was more right than else, but the really important thing for this analysis is that it was weirdos
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