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Venkatesh Rao
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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 15
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      FYI for those who need it. I usually call it cheap trick in my own writing. “Glance of the eye” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27œil …

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 15
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      So much strategy depends on gaslighting an adversary and you can’t gaslight a virus. It doesn’t have a morale and psyche for you to collapse.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 15
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      The simpler an adversary the better they can serve as a mirror. The simplest ones put you into conflict with yourself. The virus as bisector, creating two kinds of humans, each the shadow of the other. Reacting to the virus in mirrored ways.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 16
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      There is the effort against the virus which isn’t really a war but more like a big science project, like Apollo Then there is the war caused by the virus among factions created by irreconcilable responses to it

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 16
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      I think there’s only 2 factions, currently represented by the save lives/reopen fast false dichotomy. The falseness is superficial. Sure there’s no economy to reopen really if it’s running amok. But the deeper divide is not yet clear. It is some sort of veiled eugenics debate.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 16
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      An unstated position shaping the action seems to be: “most who might die are drags on progress anyway, and the few who aren’t can be considered acceptable casualties in the war to save progress.” I think vastly more people buy the Great Culling narrative than will cop to it.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 16
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      You kinda have to decide where you stand on this question before you can answer any others.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 16
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      Could really use a prime radiant rn Or at least a psychohistory Sankey diagram of the sort I’ve cartooned before to get at sentiment superstates https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/30/prolegomena-to-any-dark-age-psychohistory/ …pic.twitter.com/GUxPOMvbc1

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 16
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      We’ve landed in a dank version of pebble in the sky https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_in_the_Sky …

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 16
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      It is the darkest Asimov novel — and his first. Basically “floor is lava” world. His lava was radioactivity rather than viruses.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 16
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      Unlike newer versions of the story like Elysium or In Time, it’s not a crude rich vs poor divided world. It’s a world that has a structural hard choice built in by the environment.

      12:44 AM - 16 Apr 2020
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