Social scaling is generally understood in terms of the number of people in a coordination regime, so a way to get 1200 people working together is more advanced than a way to get 12 people working together, other things being equal.
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Point is: there seems to be growing wishful thinking that this is a volition always, ideologically driven process and that at some point “woke will go too far” or “alt-right incels will go too far” and lead to a correction towards “sanity” defined as “historical density”.
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Nope. The ideology is a consequence of densification, which itself is driven by economics and tech. Not a cause. It’s like thinking “Moore’s law will go too far and there will be a correction back to vacuum tubes”. Doesn’t work that way. Quantum Zoomer Social Foam is coming.
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Thoughts inspired by observation that Woke Derangement Syndrome now exceeds Trump Derangement Syndrome in intensity and incidence. Trumpism is an instance of a cyclic reaction phenomenon. Woke is a stage in a secular historical trend. Cycles self-correct. Secular trends evolve.
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Correct questions to ask are different in each case. Cycles: when does it peak, reverse, and go into overcorrection Secular trend: what does this morph into at next scale of evolution
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If Trumpism bothers you resist it. If Woke bothers you, punch through to the other side. My suspicion on latter is temporalization of identity. People who wear an identity for a while like clothing evolving past those who want you to find and inhabit a “true” one for life.
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