Coronavirus thread. Content warning: 50/50 chance this will help vs harm. If you are comforted by sideways philosophical arguments read on. If not, I refer you the next tweet on my timeline.
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So, folks are “panicking”/responding strongly to coronavirus because on some level they WANT to panic about it. Not that they enjoy panicking, or that they can choose to, rather they want it in the sense that responding strongly to c-virus is serving some need in them in some way
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That need in them (us) is linked to meaning. People are craving meaning, and this is because we are in a meaning crisis (which of course interplays strongly with the ecological crisis and mental health crises our culture is experiencing).
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Replying to @ssica3003
you may be interested in this extended response on reddit btw:https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ffprqc/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_march_09_2020/fkit9js/ …
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Thank you
but also omg the idea of folks engaging with things I say fills me with a strange dread
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