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Trying to adapt hype cycle into a weirding cycle. It always ends in a plateau of boringness. An asymptote of uninterestingness. Most weirding is artificial mystique that eventually wears off, on top of some squalid shittiness that doesn’t unless actively removed.
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Normalcy is generally mildly interesting, because most real things provoke shallow curiosity. Secular weirding is asymptotically mildly boring because it is either not real (an artifact of FUD) or an unsolvable existential threat that’s too anxiety inducing to be interesting
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Got on this bunny trail after reading something (possibly by Orwell?) on how dictators like to give long, boring speeches on purpose
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Those who support/popularize initially and those who criticize a bit later help reduce the cycle duration. Can this be a conscious act with the intention to accelerate reaching the plateau of boringness? 1/
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"They had been Promotionaries, on their respective sides of the Wars (which were not, of course, between Good and Evil at all, as non-combatants of every species always assumed, but between Banality and Interest)." -- Iain Banks, Walking on Glass
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how does this get superimposed on tech hype cycles, e.g., are these cultural cycles something that happens once technical underpinnings have already passed the peak + trough?