I'm excited to watch the JBP-Žižek thing. I want to be angry at myself for that but I'm just not. I want the insipid resolution of a boxing match.
Yes. Or, at least, I think -- this is all a very hot take. Maybe I am completely wrong and nothing has changed at all. That our level of substitutable awful always existed and defines social struggle at all points in history identically. But, I think ours *is* very different.
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Nobody in history has ever had THIS MUCH information to reconcile. It's one of those situation where a quantitative difference is so big that it becomes a qualitative difference.
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Yes. I've been working on an essay or even just notes on that exact idea! Instrumental rationality or whatever demands that you spend cognitive effort finding satisfying answers to unsatisfiable problems where each alteration breaks the whole thing. It's maddening!
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In the Medium Is the Massage sense, I get to see all of the fuckery now. At a level much grander than myself, impossible for me to individually affect in any way. Meanwhile, my sense of local atrophies. Like you put it, fiction becomes important. At least I get a complete arc.
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I feel like the relief that fiction provides is almost less about that complete arc and more about a finite and bounded slice of reality within which to disappear for a while. It feels nice to have a 'local', in so many different ways.
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