Political ideologies don’t even meaningfully exist if they aren’t big ideas. The only candidate big idea coming out of the culture war is “beefing is good”, ie the warring itself as ideology. As a sort of cleansing and necessary lemon-cayenne enema to the body politic.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1134684007399010304 …
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This is not your revolutionary war. It’s the end-of-history war among rotting dinosaur carcasses between mad max tribes. Terminus Hobbes. At best we can hope to starve the war machine of meaning by reading it as spectacle rather than consequential political struggle.
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You can’t really hide from it or ignore it. There’s too much societal energy invested in it (that’s the point of a war, to burn societal energy through futility). But by seeing it differently, you can fall out of love with the big idea of warring and look for better life loves
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I just used the phrase “a crowd rubbernecking at itself” If it’s also angry, that’s the culture war. Like hate-watching people...people hate-watching?https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1134924490197143552?s=20 …
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It also occurred to me that driving was the original social medium. A networked public space created by technology for impoverished interactions among reductive personas. Honk = like, communicate through cut-offs, merges, tailgating, giving the finger.
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The difference is, when you drive for fun, you pick pleasant, scenic, easy-driving routes. You don’t head for the snarly gridlock of honks and flip-offs for “fun”. You only do it if you have to get somewhere. The culture war is a bit like going for a “fun” drive in a traffic jam.
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Tldr of my GUT of the culture war: it’s an end-of-history Hobbesian conflict, 100% governed by the beef-only sheep-logic of “last men”, whose idea of fun is going for a drive in a traffic jam because car-makers and oil companies have convinced them history depends on it.
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The sheep-logic reference if you can’t parse that.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1134921580927115264?s=21 …
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dude - speaking of nano-ideologies - "anti-kittenism" is SO not gonna work as a handle for this one

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Heh, I have no beyond-nano ambitions here.
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do you mean Michael Moore or Alan Moore
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Stephen. Trump’s main ideological mook right now.
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