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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Sep 2019
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    You know why we’re doing the culture wars in the US first? It’s the easiest case.

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    • ian m hines have a holly jolly era of vice and indulgence NOLAN GRAY team “rise in cases” ptarmigan 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 d:\erek_klein (✊😷) Olaf Divia Eden Hussein
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      2. Matthew Sweet‏ @Matthew_Sweet 11 Sep 2019
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        UK up next.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Sep 2019
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        UK sounds like people have given up already

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      2. Dan listens to the last days of the first days‏ @danlistensto 11 Sep 2019
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        Is this the first culture war, though?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Sep 2019
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        Yes. In this form it’s a post-internet phenomenon. Newspapers/tv are not enough.

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      2. «Sam•Forsythe»‏ @poly_metis 11 Sep 2019
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        And in the end ideological lines were so skewed it was the SPD Vorstand Noske who called in the Freikorps to put down the Spartacists.

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      3. «Sam•Forsythe»‏ @poly_metis 11 Sep 2019
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        Not sure if it can be found online but this was a really incredible deep dive documentary into the collapse of Weimar: https://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/sendung/musste-weimar-scheitern-100.html …

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Sep 2019
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        crywolf public immune compromised against dangerous lies by a lot of trivial ones This is like dark antifragility to hypocrisy with truth as casualty 🤣 fake news hormesis

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      2. Maxim Raginsky‏ @mraginsky 11 Sep 2019
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        Berlin Alexanderplatz reads to me in a similar way. The intercutting of the actual plot narrative with ads and newspaper copy is particularly effective there.

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      3. Maxim Raginsky‏ @mraginsky 11 Sep 2019
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        In fact, Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar uses the same device and also has a distinctly Weimar-ish feel to it. He was eerily prescient about quite a few things (his “muckers” as edgelord stochastic terrorists, extremely online, corporate algorithmic surveillance, etc.).

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      1. «Sam•Forsythe»‏ @poly_metis 11 Sep 2019
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        c.f.https://inpatientpress.bigcartel.com/product/almost-zero-by-vladislav-surkov …

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