If the black woman is the least protected person in America, who is the most protected? Why, it’s the white man, of course. You can see this playing out in the White House right now. The most overtly corrupt president in modern memory and people keep covering for him. It’s wild
Sorry, I may have been using your thread as rubber duck debugging almost. But yes, culture is the fabric I was trying to study / manipulate. I did so hoping to find technical solutions to mutating culture to produce better outcomes. (Which, yea, doesn't really work.)
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Like, I have lots of specific applications to mediums like twitter. But, my conclusion was (mostly) one every sociologists learned early on: there aren't technical solutions to social issues. It's mostly doing what you're doing. Speaking truth to power stuff (at high cost).
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(Which is disappointing to someone like me who started out looking for change by version bump.)
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dunno, there’s one angle to this I think that could work: collapsing cost of distribution to let more kinds of people create culture I’m thinking stuff like twitter/vine. Maybe mutation is the wrong approach but handing out little thruster packs to change trajectory has promise
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Oh, absolutely. For the validating reinforcement of "you're not alone, other people think this / experience this," it's incredible! Plus, observing those changed me! Like, fuck, I worked at Cato in my early twenties!
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