What's worse than academic citation rings? Twitter pseudo-life-coach mention rings. The content is ever so stale. You can only rip off the stoics so many times, fellas...
There’s a valuable social function in repeating over and over that which one thinks is most important. If it’s stale to you, no need to keep reading it. But after all, our species is constantly creating new people who haven’t heard it yet.
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I understand the value of repetition. It's at the core of Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication, after all. What I'm reacting to is the way in which it's naively mimicked in service of self aggrandizement, rather than in service of any genuine goal. It's deeply ironic.
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Self-aggrandizement is a genuine goal :) it may not be the “holiest” of goals, but, hey, there’s no accounting for taste
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Yes it can be excessive—& if the bacterial plume consumes its food source (attention) without setting up sustainable symbiosis, it dies off. But there’s a reason e.g. church services repeat weekly. People forget; lives change; the same aphorism takes on new meaning in new context
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To be clear, I'm completely on board with pragmatic repetition in service of a higher goal. To further extend your metaphorical extension, I'm merely asserting that from where I'm sitting, the plume appears far closer to exponential consumption than to sustainable symbiosis.
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