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Venkatesh Rao
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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Jun 2019
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      periodic reminder 💀 This tweet is sort of the opposite of a memento mori for me.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1073751685212692480 …

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      You have no obligation to be useful or interesting to the world.
      4 replies 5 retweets 37 likes
    2. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 6 Jun 2019
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      But the world has this nasty habit of giving more resources, fame, prestige, etc. to those who are useful and interesting. You don't necessarily get rewarded for being useful/interesting. But you almost certainly won't be rewarded without being so. Kardashians are an exception.

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    4. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 6 Jun 2019
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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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    5. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 6 Jun 2019
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      It's what passes for "good" when our memetic infrastructure is stuck in this current local maxima of reality TV. We are still living off the fat of the Marshall plan, and we deferred payment in 2008. (That balloon payment is going to come due soon and it's going to be a doozy.)

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    6. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 6 Jun 2019
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      Kardashians also play into the "standard American con" of every poor person being a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Every basic Insta/Snap user is a temporarily unfamous Kardashian. It's perfect combo of PT Barnum and Hillbilly Elegy.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Jun 2019
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      Sure they’re interesting. So are tons of other objects. That doesn’t mean criticism is mere shallow virtue signaling. That’s like saying the technical interestingness of coal power plants and gasoline engines makes concern for climate change shallow signaling,

      8:09 AM - 6 Jun 2019
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Jun 2019
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          Replying to @RivalVoices @pwang

          So you find them interesting and are offended that others don’t *shrug* move on, to each their own

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