I’ve lost count of the number of otherwise interesting celebs I don’t follow because they succumbed to the temptation to raise zombie armies simply because they can. Because any interaction carries a risk of their getting petulant and telling their attack dogs, “go, kill!
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They tell themselves that we are cowardly, unimportant digital-middle-class chatterati doing bullshit jobs and intellectualizing without fighting in their big important crusades, and that they’re missing nothing. That we are to be either ignored or burned with righteous wrath.
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In a way it’s the age old conflict pattern: kings+restive peasants against middle classes. But somehow I suspect we’ll last longer. The world is too complex for idiots to run, and too big for a few straussian crypto-monarchs (in all senses of ‘crypto’) to run by themselves.
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Note: zombies are mostly CREATED through such exploitative, radicalizing thought leadership. You don’t draw from a large pool of waiting natural-born zombies. You zombify potentially mentally healthy people, by betraying trust earned through original work https://twitter.com/neilscudder/status/1018561267345211392?s=20 …
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One more. I try but fail to see the world from the zombie stormtrooper perspective. All I can imagine is they’re lonely people who turn a slight emotional resonance with a distant celebrity, plus a small sign of royal favor like a like, into an entire desperately protected psyche
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If someone had no idea who those people were, would they be able to find out without seeming stupid? Asking for a friend.
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Yes but where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise
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