I did learn the “edgy” playbook in a previous life and decided I didn’t like the tradeoffs involved in using it to get big reach. It really isn’t very hard. In more peaceful times we called it link-baiting. There is a robotic script to being an edgy taboo-shattering provocateur
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If this sounds like marriage that’s no accident. Marriage is merely the relationship where failure to operate in “till death do us part” mode is costliest. But it’s an ethos you can bring to any relationship you value. You can’t invest this much in 7 billion but you can do ~150.
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I don’t care what your tribe is, but I hope you’ll build it slow+cheap or cheap+good. I hope you resist the temptation of fast+cheap. I don’t care about your ideology/politics. All I care about is that you build your social world around the “good” reach of for-life relationships.
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If you do that — make it a resolution perhaps — then even if I violently disagree with you about everything from immigration to IQ to climate change, I’ll defend your right to exist and do your thing your way, with your chosen people, and I suspect you’d do the same for me.
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So happy new year, here’s to a good 2019, and let’s try to wind this dumb culture war of fast-and-cheap tribes as quickly and painlessly as we can. We’ve all got better things to do. Really. Even if it seems right now that “owning” your outgroup is the best game in the world.
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Incredible thread. Let's hope people slowly come around to these ideas
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