Weird how much of communication--especially rhetoric, PR, demagoguery --is just "code words to activate Trojan horse exploits" in the brain.
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Humans install these strong, emotional beliefs + everything around those highly charged issues now BYPASS reason.
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Examples include alpha (male), welfare, GMO, fundamentalist, hate speech, riot, SJW, quotas, etc.
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If you stand slightly back from the Left/Right...it's like a ping pong match of simplistic semantic signaling. Then the auto-reactivity.
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The job of writing and art is exactly to challenge this gullible complacency. To sharpen skepticism without increasing pessimism.
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“A principal task of art is to strengthen the adversarial consciousness.” —Susan Sontag




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I've seen that quote from Sontag a few times previously, & never really got it before reading your tweets. Thanks!
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