The secrets of the great weirding are probably best unlocked by taking a second, much harder look at the recession era. 2006-14. Clearly the only part I was paying serious attention to was TV, but even that reveals a lot and repays double-take attention.
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I milked an entire second career out of the most truthful TV of that era, The Office, but spent way more time watching the escspist stuff.
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Realizing it wasn’t just USA network. SyFy also had a few middlebrow innocence shows during the same period.
Eureka (2006) and Warehouse 13 (2009-14) had the same sunny, cheery vibe. They were like campy X-files seem from the other side, from inside the secret deep state orgs. twitter.com/vgr/status/115…
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You watched Continuum, right? Between 2010 & 2013 I believe. Predicted every big data tech advance 6mo before it hit the news, & predicted ideological inversions too.
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Oh, I see the weirding concept is something you wrote about before. I’ll have to see if there’s a delve into it on ribbonfarm or such.


