I see the people really into docile civility are panicking about the slippery slope morality of cancel culture, and everyone — including me in this very tweet — has decided fuck it, let’s pour more of ourselves into this deliberative infinite void of a downstream effect.
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Cancel culture is a mixture of irony, the collapse of agency in the face of increased hierarchy and complexity (hi Simon!), and a finally rupturing strike-slip fault line in culture that determines who leads. No one really likes it. Definitely do keep an eye on it. But look out,pic.twitter.com/HJJ9KFuRzz
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Once you conceptualize it as internecine battles between various levels of cultural elites and the lesser bands of monied and political elites who occupy the same power space the less interesting it becomes
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I just see it all as reality tv in the pejorative sense. Which is really the same thing
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They make it like cancel culture is a new thing, but half the women entertainers I liked as a teen were cancelled for mental illness or not sleeping with Harvey Weinstein. But let there be just a hint that the richest men might lose some admirers and all hell breaks loose.
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