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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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      The future never arrives with the aesthetics of anybody who’s been actually preparing for it even if it’s a functional equivalent

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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      Exhibit A: colorfully home-made domestic cozy Etsy masks where all the preppers were prepping grimdark80s tacticool madmaxterminator https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1249925342631886848?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1249925342631886848 …

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      This but with hello kitty aesthetics rather than 80s grimdark would be a winning product https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1245179774097477633 …
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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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      Exhibit B: Everybody projecting their favorite dystopian scifi onto today’s regionalism tendency of governors vs Trump. It’s going to play out with tediously bureaucratic banality. You’re not getting names like “Cascadia” etc out of this. https://twitter.com/qiaochuyuan/status/1249812835229503488?s=21 …https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1249812835229503488 …

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      Olaf @QiaochuYuan
      oh shit we're in *that* part of the YA post-apocalypse backstory https://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1249811760019845123 …
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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted News24

      Exhibit C: Instead of epic apocalypse sermons and stirring leaderly speeches we get... LinkedIn style infoporn https://twitter.com/news24/status/1249790819684560898?s=21 …https://twitter.com/News24/status/1249790819684560898 …

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      FULL SLIDESHOW | SA’s Covid-19 epidemic: Trends and next steps http://ow.ly/8PFc50zcYFk  pic.twitter.com/QOMYQv69tW
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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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      I’m probably going to turn more prepper in the process of adapting right now but I’m gonna look for anti-aesthetic ways. Even grey-man is too much aesthetic because normal breaks during crisis so you can’t blend into what doesn’t exist yet. No normcore without norms.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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      Humans have a need for narrative projection to dramatize counterfactual thinking, and that means non-functional signifier elements. Like grim events call for beige clothes, right? But when grim events do unfold, and you need fabric, you’ll kinda use whatever the hell you have.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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      Take facial hair and haircuts. Stubble and beards are more apocalyptic, but... guys are shaving because masks fit better 🤣 Haircuts: movie apocalypses have fancy tribal hair. We are dealing with overgrown hair or bad home haircuts because salons and barbershops are closed.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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          Backpacks and duffels are standard apocalypse style. But I’m carrying around around disposable paper/plastic bags because I don’t want to decontaminate durable bags each time I step out.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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          Suggestion to budding sci-fi writers. World-build a normal world before your apocalypse and then scavenge it for improv survival artifacts after the crash. Don’t dress your hero in beige henleys if the crashed society is a fancy suits world. He’s gonna wear a battered suit.

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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          I guess the opposite of my old idea of a manufactured normalcy field is... improvised weirdness crash-site?https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/welcome-to-the-future-nauseous/ …

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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          Another interesting thing: food. We’re supposed to all be eating grey unidentifiable, unappetizing soylent mush with luxury fine food being rare. But I’m eating random fancy shit while some staples are getting harder to find. And of course as much remarked, everybody is baking.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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          There’s some moral projection too. Apocalypse stories are often written with a “we must pay for our sins” moral angle. So there must be privation and no luxuries. But half of us middle-classes are having a fine vacation developing long-dormant side projects. Unfair but true.

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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          Hmm. I need to write this up.

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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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          Kinda tired though, I’ve written so many damn things that are loosely like this, it’s not as much fun for me anymore. Maybe I’ll turn it into a bounty challenge. $100 for most viral execution on this color-by-numbers template.

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        9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 13
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          Caveat: this is very far from over and we’re just in phase 1 of n. Who knows, maybe one of the aesthetic predictions true in phase 3 or 7.

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