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    1. Rem “Not Cool” House‏ @adamhump 31 Mar 2019
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      only secondary sources and a couple of lectures: I understand he himself has backed off from end of history talk

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    2. Rem “Not Cool” House‏ @adamhump 31 Mar 2019
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      I view this thesis as an expression of Utopianism. It is the exact peak of a zeitgeist which we are now all reacting to the deficiencies of

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    3. Rem “Not Cool” House‏ @adamhump 31 Mar 2019
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      getting away from Fukuyama: history is nothing more than an ongoing interpretation of stuff that others saw worthy of memorializing. talking about restarting this process gets into murky totalitarian territory (Bolshevism)... also... turns out they weren’t really able to restart!

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 Mar 2019
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      We’re talking past each other entirely. We don’t share frames enough to really communicate here.

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    5. Rem “Not Cool” House‏ @adamhump 31 Mar 2019
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      apparently history ended but then there was 9/11, the war on terror, economic dislocation, Trump, is my gist. If you think he deserves more of a shake I’m onboard. My sense is his big thing is state capture now.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 Mar 2019
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      Yep that’s the pop misunderstanding. The theory does not say significant events stop happening. Only that they don’t constitute history in a useful technical sense, because they stop mattering in key ways.

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    7. Rem “Not Cool” House‏ @adamhump 31 Mar 2019
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      what I hear is, “there has been born conditions where a higher order of abstraction qualifies the meaning of events, not the events themselves (where the meaning of events can only be discerned by highly specialized experts)”. Am I wrong?

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    8. Rem “Not Cool” House‏ @adamhump 31 Mar 2019
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      isn’t identitarianism on some level a reclamation of particularist meaning?

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 Mar 2019
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      Up to you to decide if the specialized sense is worth the effort to access for you. It’s not an idea dependent on social proof. Like gravity it applies even to those skeptical of it. Believers get agency out of applying the laws.

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    10. Rem “Not Cool” House‏ @adamhump 31 Mar 2019
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      that’s what Marx said also. But life just never fits into our conception of it.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 Mar 2019
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      Dude, read the books if it interests you, don’t if it doesn’t. This is not a useful conversation for either of us.

      4:33 PM - 31 Mar 2019
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        2. Rem “Not Cool” House‏ @adamhump 31 Mar 2019
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          I’m trying to tell you something! Something of what I think! A distillation of what I have read and learned! I am looking to learn from you! I think you’ve got blind spots I can help augment! Probably the other way around also!

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          Not worth the effort for me tbfhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1112477786285830144?s=20 …

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          UAMI: Unilaterally Assured Mutual Incomprehension. The equilibrium that results from one person both refusing to explain themselves or make the effort to understand the other. Daddy of agree-to-disagree and granddaddy of disagree-and-commit It’s a good thing.
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