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Rewatching tv/movies and rereading books feels like an externalized version of the review processes by which long-term narrative memories are formed. What happens when high-tech fiction and fake news is intertwingled enough with “real” memories that you can’t tell them apart? 🤔
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The long now. That's what's happening. C.f. McDonald's coffee burn incident. The "popular memory" is the substrate for political warfare. We are not yet at the point where we are actively warring over commit rights (the pages of Wikipedia are the Omaha beach), but It'll happen.
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Honestly I'm shocked that there hasn't been a triumphant revisionist movie made about the Trump 2016 election, made for popular audiences (not just the base). That would be a memetic tactical nuke for 2020 election. And of course, translated into Spanish.
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One of the two hedgehogs I carry with me: television changed human consciousness without our understanding how, & the false conflicts created by "reality tv" led to our current state. So much work to be done in this area.
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Intuitively related: Lots of people said they dreamed in black & white back when TV was monochrome & Movies are the control group for emotional growth: moments you can experience again and again that stay exactly the same, allowing you to perceive your own change in contrast
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