"performative" is truly the word of our social moment.
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Acute description of the dysfunctional nature of the current structure of govtpic.twitter.com/U1VgigKwjx
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"Simply put, many members of Congress have come to understand themselves most fundamentally as players in a larger cultural ecosystem, the point of which is not legislating or governing but rather a kind of performative outrage for a partisan audience."pic.twitter.com/Uv07gCrNMF
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“in a world where virality is more valuable than legislative productivity, it’s unlikely her decisions will cause immediate political backlash."
@HotlineJoshpic.twitter.com/uYR0Glrpem
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All this, as opposed to what ought to be - "Members who allow themselves to be molded by Congress take the shape required by the place that the legislature is assigned in our system, and they make its interests their own."
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"Every institution needs an inner life ... But Congress has progressively lost that inner life, as all of its deliberative spaces have become performative spaces, everything has become televised, and there is less and less room and time for talking in private."pic.twitter.com/ux8GxZTnFT
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"His efforts have instead been conceived more as turns in the plot of the drama of our politics, aimed at driving the story, particularly the cable-news story."pic.twitter.com/uj5BSwaxgd
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"Trump’s formative institutional experiences therefore shaped him to thrive in an era of politics as entertainment." ... "...a kind of commentator in chief rather than a political actor, is a newer and more ominous phenomenon."pic.twitter.com/44Zj7CXysV
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On political party institutionalism eroding "The result of this is that parties have become de-professionalized, cannot control their own internal processes, and are increasingly exposed to the power and pressure of political-celebrity culture."pic.twitter.com/dDRUJlwsP5
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"We aren’t exactly disagreeing about public policy, because we aren’t really talking about public policy much,"pic.twitter.com/qkQafjSn4t
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Onto professions - "In uncertain situations, a professional asks himself, “What should I do here, given my professional responsibilities?” And his profession will generally have an answer to that question."
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And media "Although their instinctive parlance is the vocabulary of downtrodden masses crying out against the abuses of an oppressive elite, they frequently accuse that elite of being too weak, not too strong."pic.twitter.com/Men6pHJE6v
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"One generation came of age where they entered this esteemed institution and tried to find a way to fit into it, and this other generation has an expectation that the institution will change to accommodate them. That’s the essence of the tension.”"pic.twitter.com/k4j0d0R7Ck
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"Finding a balance can be hard because many of the objectives we want universities to pursue are in direct tension with one another."pic.twitter.com/p5hLgQ7dTW
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"If everyone thinks their own school is an exception, they might be wrong about the rule."pic.twitter.com/pztvzbO1vQ
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"isolated islands of liberal learning in a sea of identity politics"pic.twitter.com/LZQX85LdoF
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"It offers an entire moral system to students who feel as though society at large offers them no other such framework that they can respect."pic.twitter.com/NTLZ9h31oa
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On activism as expressive v activism as goal-focused. And - "The question that can help us judge the appropriateness or integrity of what happens on campus is something like “Are we building knowledge?”pic.twitter.com/PkUAzYtSm3
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Finally found a spot where I disagree. He's wrong - community based on shared values of any kind can be ideal for advertisers. These two are not opposed, necessarilypic.twitter.com/Bxx322a89L
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He's also wrong here - WeWork encourages us to engage with other professionals. Uber lets us talk with drivers and others in the car. Airbnb is often a way to immerse in a local culture.pic.twitter.com/kjzIiHmUpI
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A beautiful point - "This shortage of serendipity not only means we are less frequently exposed to new ideas or challenges to our expectations." As silly as it may sound, this is why I prefer TV to Netflix and Pandora to a playlist. But I always wonder what I'm missing elsewherepic.twitter.com/fIkAwr2QZr
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While right on formality, I'd argue it's been misunderstood in part because too many of its champions misunderstand it thusly.pic.twitter.com/5Yu383f578
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"We have always had a vague sense that what we see of the lives of movie stars and other cultural icons is somehow choreographed. The same is true now of our politicians"pic.twitter.com/WeiRIcyO74
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"By letting us carefully curate the image of ourselves available to others, social media encourages us to think of ourselves as living performatively." This is a particularly acute diagnosispic.twitter.com/uUp1G5gPvV
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"The selfie culture is a culture of personalized micro-celebrity, in which we each act as our own paparazzi, relentlessly trading in our own privacy for attention and affirmation and turning every moment into a show."
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And finally - for tonight, not for the book - a long list of how social media mishapes us "They plainly encourage the vices most dangerous to a free society. They drive us to speak without listening, to approach others confrontationally rather than graciously, to spread ..."pic.twitter.com/1PbY4fEstA
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Just finished the book! WELL worth the read. Finishing this thread now - https://amzn.to/2SnFg7q "Sometimes we lose trust in our institutions simply because the people who populate them turn out not to be trustworthy."
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On celebrity and religion "The lure of celebrity lifts leaders out of their protective institutional constraints and puts them on display."pic.twitter.com/YvmB9Z2DBP
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