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    1. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 8 Mar 2020

      "performative" is truly the word of our social moment.

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    2. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 8 Mar 2020

      "we find that many holders of elected office now spend much of their time participating in the cultural theater of our politics—often complaining dramatically about the corruption of the very institutions in which they hold positions—more than playing the role the system assigns"

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    3. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 8 Mar 2020

      "Ppl frequently seek platforms in order to be seen taking the side of their tribe in these struggles...led to the gradual replacement of a culture of integrity w something more like a culture of celebrity—in which achievement is measured by prominence & legitimacy by affirmation"pic.twitter.com/PD6IbHXLYQ

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    4. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 8 Mar 2020

      "as diff institutions come 2b seen (by both people in them & public) as platforms for displaying individuals, also come to lose distinctions from 1 another & so tend to become homogenized into increasingly interchangeable stages for same sorts of cultural-political performances"pic.twitter.com/QW6TXjL3ce

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    5. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 8 Mar 2020

      "From one direction we find a loss of respect for authority, process, integrity, and expertise, and from the other a loss of responsibility, restraint, and regard for a code of conduct. Each magnifies the other."pic.twitter.com/0j1UVzWAsF

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    6. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 8 Mar 2020

      "As we have called upon each American to become more fully himself or herself, we have implicitly put aside the notion that our social institutions exist to shape us." Here I disagree w Yuval - individuality need not bump against institutions but can exist within them & outside

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    7. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 8 Mar 2020

      "over the decades, our popular culture has increasingly become a celebrity culture, in which exposure, prominence, audience, and the appearance of authenticity are paramount. In many domains of American life, this has tended to blur the distinction between reality and image"

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    8. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 8 Mar 2020

      "Transparency is a necessary guard against insiderism, but in excess it can easily rob an institution of any inner life, and so can naturally leave people holding institutional roles with the impression that performing for an outside audience is all they’re doing."

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    9. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 8 Mar 2020

      ^ SPOT ON. See: https://www.legbranch.org/the-power-of-privacy-in-legislative-negotiations/ … @LegBranch

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    10. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 8 Mar 2020

      What ought to be: "“What should I do here, given my role or my position?” As a parent, a teacher, a police officer, a scientist, a senator, or a pastor, what is my responsibility in this particular situation?"

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      Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

      BACK TO THIS! On the institution of Congress failing its role, however you measure itpic.twitter.com/LVfmfZXXLZ

      5:13 PM - 22 Apr 2020
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        2. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          Acute description of the dysfunctional nature of the current structure of govtpic.twitter.com/U1VgigKwjx

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        3. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        4. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          “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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        5. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          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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        6. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        7. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        8. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        9. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          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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        10. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          The fall of the party from institution to platformpic.twitter.com/fyZcGeWmAT

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        11. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        12. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          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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        13. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          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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        14. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        15. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          On how media may rebuild institutionalismpic.twitter.com/OL5CbkrH8W

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        16. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        17. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "If everyone thinks their own school is an exception, they might be wrong about the rule."pic.twitter.com/pztvzbO1vQ

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        18. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "isolated islands of liberal learning in a sea of identity politics"pic.twitter.com/LZQX85LdoF

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        19. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        20. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          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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        21. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          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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        22. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          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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        23. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          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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        24. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          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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        25. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        26. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        27. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          "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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        28. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          And back to where things are better saidpic.twitter.com/Jx4hZ8gdX9

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        29. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 22 Apr 2020

          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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        30. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 30 Apr 2020

          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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        31. Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair  🦥‏Verified account @senatorshoshana 30 Apr 2020

          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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