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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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
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.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1182534907383312385?s=21 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrRealizing 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. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1153915871569408001 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
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You think the Gervais principle has explanatory power for this era? Sociopaths harvesting & exiting at scale, losers choosing a form of happiness over growth or agency. A staid middle management layer that's clueless, can't grasp the weirding, keeps parroting business as usual?
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It’s tempting but probably not. The great weirding is too extra-institutional and GP is an institutional model
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