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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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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Doesn’t require an individual human dictator. A situational Gregory like Brexit can do the trick it seems. Theresa May is no dictator but the Brexit headspace is dictatorially boring. An interminable boring speech by a powerful but antiinteresting borg.
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“Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes.” - Clive James quoting Albert Camus
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