For many, total shunning of social media isn’t an option. You must “engage” in order to be in good standing. But you must engage in a carefully-managed, risk-averse fashion. Hence the rise of soft, fuzzy corporate authoritarianism which is already ubiquitous: will only get worse
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The more overbearing this monoculture gets, the more people will revolt against it: even as they're increasingly unable to express their resentments in public. Quite a nasty paradox we've constructed for ourselves. (Also an ideal condition for extremism/conspiracies to flourish)
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This reminds me of
@Meaningness's model of social class in the US — https://meaningness.com/political-left-right-rotated … (In terms of his model, you describe the Middle-Middle-class rules; to be Upper-Middle-class, you do have to be somewhat controversial, perhaps by skirting the edge of the acceptable)pic.twitter.com/FjEYN5YaJO
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I wonder if this has changed in the past couple of years. Or, more likely, the elite understand (as other clueful people do) that changing social norms require greater circumspection in public, with the edgy opinions required for status expressed only privately and deniably.
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Yes, and employers are looking at instagram etc, you not only HAVE to have a presence, it has to look good to them.
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I will never work for anyone that asks to see anything of any profile I may or may not have online.
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That'd be too bad, because there's nothing more transgressive and dynamic than elite culture.
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This is the level of reasonable, civilised debate online -pic.twitter.com/WXlGHsQfRd
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Yes, I was going to remark that the softysquish corporate line is only one end of the developing bimodal distribution of online style.
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They've already created a conformist culture. When is the last time you've actually heard an open public debate? It's taboo to talk politics.
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Or maybe a culture that isn't vulgar and idiotically impulsive in the way it expresses and comports itself. America's elites perhaps reached a cultural pinnacle in the 1940s. Since then it's been a steady decline.
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I long for the days when men and women practiced a modicum of public decorum. Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind. Never write, text, post, email anything you wouldn’t want printed on the front page of the NYT.
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Strenuously trying to understand what this means in English
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Soon to be launched Twitter Plus will auto rewrite all offensive content.;)
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Welcome to U.S. technocracy 2.0. Resembles more and more, China.
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Damn Michael killin it lately
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