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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Apr 2019
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      All this of course assumes there is some degree of governance and restraint possible on the cancel side; that it is a true public capable of some deliberation and conscious choices; that it is not always a zombie mob of true believers led by psycho authoritarians.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Apr 2019
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      If it is, then this is all moot. It’s a zombie apocalypse, and the vampire elites have to go into hiding while the humans band into family-structured units for everything.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Apr 2019
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      To complete the analogy, the libertarian werewolf packs think they’ll inherit the world after the vampires and zombies destroy each other and they eat the humans on the way to their Galtian fortresses, but they’re mostly weresheep in practice and can be safely ignored as NPCs.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Apr 2019
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      Final point: I haven’t said much about the target class of cancel culture, unaccountable institutional elites of some sort. The ones analogous to extractive vampire-farmers in this convoluted mixed metaphor. They are harder to generalize about since they are more varied.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Apr 2019
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      Raging zombies are all alike, every predatory vampire is predatory in its own way. Universities, Hollywood, gaming communities, legislative bodies, corporations, courts, each is extractively destroyed in its own way.

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    6. earlgreykovsky‏ @dschorno 2 Apr 2019
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      vampires and zombies are what the upper and lower class look like from a middle-class perspective (people who can't be held accountable to middle-class social norms). Werewolfs/shapeshifters/body snatchers are people who appear to be bound by those rules but are not

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    7. earlgreykovsky‏ @dschorno 2 Apr 2019
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      anyone can become a zombie by deciding overtly not to play by the rules anymore. Anyone can become a werewolf by doing the same thing but stealthily

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    8. earlgreykovsky‏ @dschorno 2 Apr 2019
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      when i say middle class i mean middle class of a particular world (universities, celebrity, etc). Anyone opting out of a world looks the same (zombie) because they join the mass of ungoverned humanity.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Apr 2019
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      Not really. Zombies in my metaphor are not opt-out types, but powerless lower strata insiders who *can’t* opt out easily.

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    10. earlgreykovsky‏ @dschorno 2 Apr 2019
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      was trying to stretch to include opioid epidemic types at the bottom—you're describing someone who is opting out of playing by the rules but is still ultimately wants the system to succeed. so... Pitchfork mob? kind of zombie-lite (less punchy for your purposes, probably a no go)

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Apr 2019
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      They’re a different species.

      9:54 PM - 2 Apr 2019
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        1. earlgreykovsky‏ @dschorno 2 Apr 2019
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          like C.H.U.D.s (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers)? 😆 Regardless I still think the "Horror" comes from people becoming untethered by the normativity field, which is also being dramatically shifted/reshaped (heteronormativity & social expectations generally)

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