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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Jun 2019
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Peter Wang

      Good counter-counter narrative Narrative: Kardashians are vapid, rentier symptoms of all that’s wrong Counter-narrative: They’re actually admirable geniuses; Kim with her billion-user app, Kylie Jenner with her billion-dollar cosmetics biz Counter-counter-narrative: See belowhttps://twitter.com/pwang/status/1136641496608911360 …

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      Peter Wang @pwang
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      What makes them fascinating? Every generation sends a hero up the pop charts. Since we are the cursed descendants of po-mo and punk, we loathe real heroes. But the memetic substrate of a highly wired society demands & craves something to fill the void. Thus fame for fame's sake.
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Jun 2019
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      I think truth is somewhere between CN and CCN. They are admirable geniuses at a purely tactical level in the game of parlaying simulation-wealth into real wealth, kinda like Trump or crypto-lucky. They’re also signs of uncritical gamesmanship in a toxic late-capitalist endgame.

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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Jun 2019
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          Overall I agree with @pwang here and lean towards his CCN. They’re brown, female, LA versions of SV techbro scenester crowd. Their obvious competence at playing the signal —> wealth game well, with the good cards they’ve been dealt, should not obscure the crappiness of the game

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        1. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd 6 Jun 2019
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          Paris Hilton is a failed Kardashian. An almost Twitsatz Haderach

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        1. Gunther Boogle‏ @GuntherBoogle 6 Jun 2019
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          It's "Toxic" by definition of the old rules of the game, but is there anything actually toxic about it? I strongly dislike them as well, but want to make sure we have the intellectual high ground here.

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        2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 6 Jun 2019
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          counter-counter-counter narrative: Kim Kardashian is using her fame to promote criminal justice reform and is unusually effective at it compared to most "celebrity-activists". She's earned my respect for that.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Jun 2019
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          Fair enough. She gets credit for that. Whether it is enough to offset the complicity of the clan in terrible games through their other activities is a question mark.

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        1. Nils Gilman‏ @nils_gilman 6 Jun 2019
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          Only completely uncritical worship of Mammon can find anything remotely culturally redeemable about the Kardashians. (The exception is Kanye, who arguably has musical talent — but he is also an avatar of the uncritical worship of Mammon.)

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