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Not many responses. But most strategies I see are at one end of a barbell: either dive into fray to fight battles that will be forgotten, or retreat to write less, less publicly, more specialized, and in response to less contemporary stimuli. More past, future or alt realities.
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Those of you who, like me, write in public a lot: What if, anything, have you done to adapt your style to the more beefy, toxic zeitgeist and discourse of the last few years? What’s your signal-in-noise strategy? Radiation hardening strategy?
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I think this means we’ll experience a sense of amnesia looking back to this period from the future. Since writers are underinvesting in enduring responses to the here-and-now. Normally that quadrant if 2x2 contains most of the mass.
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Full 2x2: forgettable vs enduring responses, contemporary vs non-contemporary stimuli. F+C: Beefing E+C: Memory-making F+NC: Memberberries: “My summary study notes on Aristotle” E+NC: Tradition perpetuation: This is also much lower than normal
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My only contribution to memory-making is premium mediocre. The response to that tells me people are feeling the underinvestment and responding more strongly to the slim pickings. What else? Maybe Sapiens will be remembered.
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Tradition perpetuation has bigger problems than people not writing enough in that quadrant. The underlying institutional landscape of traditions is itself under existential threat.
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yeah. I have a chronic "fear"(?) of future amnesia, which leads to me doing all sorts of memory/history curation bits. I feel like it's important to me to be able to quickly and easily pick any year of my life and get a quick sense of the highlights (personal, local, global)
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I don’t think you can fight it, at least not alone. Logging and journaling don’t anchor long-term memory, you need creative live responses for that. Creative agency is memory and too many writers have experienced too deep a loss of agency.
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