2/ It's counterintuitive because we expect The Wisdom of The Crowds. But, when we integrate the negation of someone else's expressions into our beliefs because we reliably disagree with "their type" — and when social experience dominates — people increasingly believe in nonsense.
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3/ It's one of the mildest cases for why Trump is unfit for office (although that verdict came back in early 2016): He is an entropy bomb. (Yes, all bombs are kinda entropy bombs.)
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4/ By lying relentlessly and pathologically into the worlds largest megaphone, he annihilates the information of our asocial experiences, leaving only the stereotyped expectations as a useful heuristic and means of navigating sociopolitical reality.
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5/ While the MAGA tent — a mixture of useful fool racists and an indifferent upper class that just wants deregulation and tax cuts to pull out ahead further — believes in some remarkable, nonsensical, and self-serving things, their continued power contaminates EVERYONE's beliefs.
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6/ I don't say this to excuse anything about that axis of fuckery. 2015-on has been the moral test of a generation and they are the abject failures. However, the longer we're under this chaos regime, the more likely it is that we all believe in bullshit. So mind your beliefs!
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(This will end up as a lengthy, interactive data biz that I’m working on. Abstraction in tweets is like reading tea leaves sometimes.)
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The Republican Party is the entropy bomb; the Republican president is just the firing cap, and our corporate owned 'liberal' news media is the fuel. That metaphor stretched. Let's stick with saying you give the president way to much credit.
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I don’t really, only in this narrow thread. Mostly I think he’s an opportunistic infection in a sick and old host.
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💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫 Retweeted 💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫
And this part, too,https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1166913183908425728 …
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💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫 @generativist2019 is the simultaneous collective recognition that society really did go down some weird cybernetic Baudrillardian rabbit hole a long time ago and we’ve been falling ever since — just with different analogies to say the same thing.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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If I may ask, How did it happen for you? For me, it started in 2002, when I began to realize that most US voters approved of torture. That fails "do unto other" core morality. We seem to have improved somewhat.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1750635217753655 …
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Hrm. I have an answer...but it's gonna be a thread for tomorrow.
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