The thing I miss most about the 80s is that for a moment, briefly, there was something it was like to be simply human in a global sense. We said ‘think global, act local’ and there was something that was actually about, beyond sentimentality, between ~1984-89.
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The globalization of shared consciousness sort of unraveled with the Internet, even as it grew way stronger at the level of bits and atoms. Sure it was a false consciousness but there was a subjective there there to it.
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Reading this makes me somewhat sad. It also reminded me of your Our Diurnal Civilisation from 2013 (a longtime favourite), where you’d written...
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Replying to @RahulGaitonde
Heh I’d forgotten id written that 
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