(Basically to find 'fine' experiences find situations where they have been eradicated by the production of really cheap (shit) substitutes.)
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A big coincidence: I noted that tweet a month ago when I was abstaining from Twitter. Finally I post it and then see: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/04/15/the-capitalists-zombie/ …
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"Focus on areas where the simulation (or proposed simulation) is so bad that it insults the idea of the original."
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"My buddy here on ribbonfarm, Sarah, believes charming traditional towns have more cultural ether than tiled suburbs."
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The former annoys him because it acts as a motte-and-bailey of the sacralisation effort being mounted in defence of tradition, culture, etc.
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One that he correctly points out will improve the fidelity of the simulation - instead of causing a return to inefficient/traditional forms.
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His representation of the belief in illegible value as "cultural ether" seems like an attempt to ridicule the idea of poor simulations.
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Clearly if concrete examples can be given it's not just 'cultural ether'.
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I think his article represents 'sour grapes' at not being one of the people able to uncover some of these illegible truths. Plato's Cave.
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I already got myself blocked by @vgr for calling him the Wizard of Oz. Nothing to lose in referring to him as an eloquent blind man, too.
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