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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 21 Jul 2018
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    Everyone hoping to gain admission to the cultural elite must now strenuously cultivate their social media so as to avoid controversy. Eventually they will internalize controversy-avoidance as a virtue, not a societal imposition. Result: a more boring, conformist elite culture

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    • just one of the super elite🇺🇸 Intelligence_Explosion Rancidius " Maximus Putridious " Potatodopoulos Evosolve Superagent G half dark mild sauce Brian Holdefehr Aldrechta Louise Mensch #1 fan account
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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 21 Jul 2018
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        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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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 22 Jul 2018
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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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      2. Rob Alexander‏ @RobDAlexander 22 Jul 2018
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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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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 22 Jul 2018
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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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      2. A. Rando, Coastal Asset‏ @adamvanoakland 21 Jul 2018
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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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      3. James‏ @fad56 22 Jul 2018
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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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      2. Ben Manson‏ @BenManson0 21 Jul 2018
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        That'd be too bad, because there's nothing more transgressive and dynamic than elite culture.

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      2. dave trott‏Verified account @davetrott 22 Jul 2018
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        This is the level of reasonable, civilised debate online -pic.twitter.com/WXlGHsQfRd

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      3. The Polemic Paine Institute‏ @PolemicTMM 22 Jul 2018
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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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      2. Bryan Accra‏ @BryanAccra 21 Jul 2018
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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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      1. DeeAntler ❌‏ @DeeAntler 21 Jul 2018
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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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      1. CbZ‏ @BrouwerClaire 21 Jul 2018
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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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      2. Trevor Walsh‏ @StevieGerrard 22 Jul 2018
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        Strenuously trying to understand what this means in English

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      1. Marcin‏ @Skilenstein 22 Jul 2018
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        Soon to be launched Twitter Plus will auto rewrite all offensive content.;)

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      1. Randodave‏ @randodave 21 Jul 2018
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        Welcome to U.S. technocracy 2.0. Resembles more and more, China.

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      1. Josh out of context‏ @joshthebandboy 21 Jul 2018
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        Damn Michael killin it lately

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