I wrote this a day or two after the 2016 election, trying to think about what went wrong. Rereading it now, it paints a bleak picture. Affective transfer and well-decomposed belief systems desperately inhibits the propensity to "give out cookies" in 2018. https://dispatches.artifexdeus.com/what-do-you-want-a-cookie-a1181b78a259 …
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Replying to @generativist @Aelkus
Like, it's really obvious and trivial, but they're not just opposed in beliefs -- there opposed in afforded strategies now. And, you're right, that asymmetry is damning -- drugs sell themselves.
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I don't think it's ignorance though. I think it's another manifestation of the asymmetry. It's metastable AF because the social environment makes it an extremely useful behavior locally. But, at a global level, the emergent result reproduces the need while strengthening barriers.
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Replying to @generativist @Aelkus
But, I do think it ends in catastrophe. ...And, I don't see any way of arresting the self-reinforcing process.
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