The interesting thing is that competing interpretive dance aesthetics evolve around the *same* event, with projected grammars, tropes ,and apophenia patterns. And people who just want make sense of the event run afoul of those building interpretation institutions.
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Like if the same concert were being watched by Beatles fans, Bach fans, and Grimes fans, each sorting signal and noise differently to extract unique “truth” performances. Asking a question offends them all.
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There are no innocent questions when tastemakers corner sensemaking. Questions mark you as either dumb or bad faith guy on the Other Team. The presumption is that there are no spectators, only participants. And participants don’t ask questions publicly, only to trusted team mates
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The only public discourse allowed around doubt is: “Is X true?” “How dare you entertain doubt around X?”
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Publicly expressed doubt is weakness in a participant so if all are presumed participants, nobody can express or explore doubts publicly. Fwiw, I downgrade the credibility of anyone who acts like the news is a concert and that asking questions is philistinism/gaucherie.
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One of the perks of being willing to look foolish and tasteless publicly is that you get a better sense of where actual foolishness lies. It can generally be found lurking under aesthetic confidence in one’s own interpretive stance. A kind of aesthetic Dunning-Kruger effect.
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I genuinely don’t give a crap about whether unfolding events validate priors of this or that interpretive stance better. If your dance troupe got it right this time it might get it wrong next time and vice versa. Get over yourself. What matters is establishing what happened.
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Twitter sensemaking isn’t a science. No matter how strongly you believe in the superior validity of your ideological inference engine, it’s as limited by noisy facts trickling in as the others. It will not consistently outperform others or be always right.
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I may have been developing a beef/grudge against all news sensemaking aesthetic subcultures for a while. I’m tired of being patronized by six conflicting dance troupes, each convinced of its artistic and moral superiority, every time events like this unfold.
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you’re deep in the weeds of sociology of knowledge. aesthetics of knowledge? aepistemology? i don’t know classsical languages so maybe aepistemology is just regular epistemology
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I don’t think it’s regular epistemology. Definitely aesthetics going on here. I have decided to pick a grand beef with communal aesthetics of all kinds now.
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i’ve been trying hard to not share stuff that isn’t at least by a journalist. i’m from the twin cities so been following this closely and have more ties to the geography, not that that counts for much. also have less exp watching this kind of thing play out on sm ofc
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