When a movement tries to claim an overly broad label for a very narrow position (like "accelerationism", "design thinking", ) it will inevitably get overloaded to cover its full scope. To attempt to restrict it to a narrow scope is a kind of semantic land grab.
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Big broad self-labelings or other-labelings are always a major red flag for me. Other examples, "critical theory" or even just "theory" (really??? you really think you can occupy that entire bloody cosmos-sized space?) Even subtler ones like "optimism" or "pessimism"
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SPOILER ALERT: Spider-Man: Far From Home reference coming up. Don't read on if you haven't watched it and plan to.
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In Spider-Man: Far From Home, the villain Mysterio/Quentin Beck, is a master of illusion, using tech to create highly inflated appearances. FX magic act. Reminded me of how cult-leaders use small, pretty weak actions to prop up very big semantic territory claims.
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If you just pick a couple of dozen potent words and build about 10-50k worth of writing to reprogram how people use them, you're done. You've created an illusory monster that's far bigger than your tools. The Peter Wiggin gambit in Ender's Game. Annoying just how *easy* this is
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the real point behind "ideological phases" is community, not lived ideology.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It has taken me far too long to notice that the correct term for "people in the loose Ribbonfarm-adjacent empirical cluster in person-space" is "Raoists".
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hehe that term was IPOed years ago, but fortunately never caught on. My shit just doesn't hang together hedgehoggily enough. Nobody has any idea what it means to be a Raoist, least of all me.
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