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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 20
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    Should I work on Better Escapism™ or Real Problems™ for the rest of my life?🤔

    8:39 PM - 20 Feb 2020
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    • Mike Solomon 🌨 Sage Gibbons Drake E. (he/him) Edgar Halliwax ᚛ᚄᚔ ᚓᚌᚐᚅ᚜ Michael Malo interminable schizophony Venkatesh Rao
    23 replies 3 retweets 17 likes
      1. Danger & Cuddlekins‏ @Chiliandgarlic Feb 20
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        I answered better escapism because I think i interpret those backwards

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      1. Matt Kent‏ @m4ttk3nt Feb 20
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        When I voted, I saw it was 100% agreement with me. Then I noticed I was the first vote. Now I can’t believe anyone disagrees with me.

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      1. Tentatively returning to this hellsite‏ @pneumatik Feb 20
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        Better Escapism seems more on brand for you.

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      1. Ben Kelly‏ @kellyreid Feb 20
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        better escapism. real problems come and go. the ability to evade psychological danger is forever

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      1. Tyler‏ @tfire_ Feb 20
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        they are the same thing

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      1. Drake E. (he/him)‏ @Drake_Works Feb 20
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        My face when the results are a perfect 50/50 splitpic.twitter.com/bY1uxIAV2s

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      2. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv Feb 21
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        visa is working on his ebook Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

        https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1123265718135312385?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1123265718135312385 …

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        Venkatesh Rao @vgr
        If you were a 34-year-old mediocre-intelligent guy and had to choose between spending 10 hours asking one of these questions in say 2009... 1. Is conservatism better/worse than liberalism? 2. Why is “The Office” so funny 3. How to fix economy? Which one would you have chosen?
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      3. Alex Schleber  👽 😷‏ @AlexSchleber Feb 21
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        Ha! Brilliant resurfacing... I had missed this at the time

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      1. tatzelbrumm‏ @Tatzelbrumm Feb 21
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        If you need to work for others to pay your bills, the former. If you don't, the latter, e.g., how to fix the problem that under capitalism, someone needs to give you some form of credit before you are even allowed to become a productive member of society.

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      1. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart Feb 21
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        Better Escapism sounds like a valid Real Problem (I don’t think you can completely isolate escapism from having underlying motives to escape from something), but the opposite transformation (of Real Problems necessarily being escapism) seems like it would be much less likely.

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