What do you call belief states underlying this kind of kayfabe larping? It’s clearly not literal, or ordinary irony. But it’s also overstating the case to call it delusional. A sort of serious unjoke. Performative chindogu? Cc: @literalbananahttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/style/storm-area-51-alienstock-blizzcon.html …
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2x2: strength of believability vs cost of falsification Note that many crackpot theories, while not unfalsifiable, are certainly costly to falsify for yourself personally. They enjoy a disbelief moat.
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Like flat earth. You can even kayfabe good faith by larping falsification attempts like launching yourself in a rocket and breaking a leg. I don’t know what injuries this dude suffered, but clearly costly signaling.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/03/25/an-amateur-rocket-maker-finally-launched-himself-off-earth-now-to-prove-its-flat/ …
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Reports of the death of reality have been highly exaggerated. People enjoy pretending to believe in it more than they actually do, so they can get all dramatic about it and shock people by declaring “post truth” or whatever. Post institutional consensus is not post truth.
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Contrarian take: we are getting more real, not less, more truthful, not less. Reality just happens to be vastly more noisy and confusing than we’ve been prepared to admit, and believing in untruths a lot less dangerous than we’ve been led to believe.
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PKD reality (that which doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it) is not generally dangerous to ignore/tune out. Most ignored reality never bites you or chase you as you retreat to escape. Believing the moon is made of blue cheese is not dangerous.
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In fact DIY alt realities can often be more real than off-the-shelf large-consensus reallties from Walmart. They just don’t come with a lot of social proof. So post-truth alarmism is really post-social-proof alarmism. The alarmists care about lost social authority, not truth.
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There was an antropologist who did a great piece on shamanic jaguar tranformations that completely shifted my worldview. To summarize, badly: Avid external participation in a religous rite should not be assumed correlate with levels of internal "belief" conviction.
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Anthropologists used to write "tribe members believe the shaman transforms into a jaguar," and this anthroplogist points out the (now blindingly obvious to me) idea that you can't assume that. Public participation != belief. cf. 12yo me at communion rail and transubstantiation.
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