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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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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@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 game2 replies 0 retweets 13 likesShow this thread -
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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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