Explication. Statics: managing wokeness requires social attentiveness and the ability to conspicuously play at hiding one's own status without actually surrendering it (h/t @sleep_murder). This is hard and costly to do, and so a credible signal of (social ability?).
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Dynamics: eventually people lower status pick up patterns of woke behavior, at which point its value as a signal of higher status is attenuated. So: on to the next level of wokeness! Plus ultra!
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Stray thought: like any popular ideology, performing wokeness requires managing lots of contradictions (both internal and empirical), and convincingly maintaining beliefs in spite of contradictions is (again) a credible signal of the ability to manage a demanding cognitive load.
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Huh? I would just call it stupid and confusing.
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its probably metarational tbh
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There too many big words getting tossed around here.
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It probably makes sense for many individuals to adopt these beliefs even as the beliefs themselves are perhaps not well thought-out
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Nobody wants to be left out of the latest cool new thing!
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heh maybe stated white guilt? *performed* white guilt?
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Ivory Elite aristocrats paradoxically show off their status by shedding what they can afford to lose. throw false positives under the bus. Zahavi talks about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_principle …
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Oh that's good. I was more thinking about cognitive load but this is a reasonable narrative too.
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why thank you sir
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