A couple more points. There's an arc to this 3 act story with 2 dimensions. Shifting focus and downward devolution in abstraction level of the discourse.
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Shifting focus:
Act 1 = culture war
Act 2 = class war
Act 3 = technological war.
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Downward devolution:
Act 1 = war of ideas/ideologies (vote with words, virtue signals)
Act 2 = war of economic trends (vote with dollars, economic signals)
Act 3 = war of material trends (vote with lifestyle choices/designs)
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Harambe inaugurated Act 1 with a nihilistic null signals, a skip-to-the-end doomerism around discourses that were already visibly futile
Ok boomer is inaugurating Act 2 by explicitly disengaging from the idea-level discourse and says "see you in the ballot box/market/court"
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My Harambe article from 2016 where I first used the term "Great Weirding"
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Simpler version of the whole story:
2016: Vote with memes
2020: Vote with dollars
2024: Vote with feet
This is assuming the core 3 tragic problems remain unsolved and nobody sees any net increase in agency/imagination.
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In 3 years it's obvious that traumatized whiteness has not actually been solved by Trumpism. It's just handed out some palliative care in the form of twitter owns. In the next year, that will "settle" into a permaweird limbo equilibrium, kinda like Richard Spencer.
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In the 4 years, best case for traumatized precarity is that Warren will try and fail to deliver medicare for all, trust busting, or student loan forgiveness or UBI or anything. And the precariat will start abandoning urban economies for remote work economies.
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Can you give example of job held by lots of urban precariat that they can take-remote?
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Anything using a computer presumably. And when they go, physical service class serving them goes with them.

