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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 below
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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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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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Overall I agree with 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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Dat me I'm always hating on the game. But players who luxuriate in and coalesce the aspirations of others around winning a broken game... also get randomly targeted by my ire. (I have more than enough disdain to go around.)
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You’re fundamentally misunderstanding Peter’s critique and bringing in the entirely orthogonal live/dead player angle (which is an interesting angle but irrelevant to the point here). You’re letting *your* purist admiration for skilled game-playing lead you to a narrow take.
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