If you traffic in ideas, you’d do well to compile them down to the lowest level you can manage. The ideal form of intellectual output is a sort of mindful witnessing of the zeitgeist where your abstractions are implied by the phenomenological boundaries you draw, not definitions
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Think about it: everything cast into the distracted boyfriend meme template has a certain narrative price tag and implicit valuation on it (marking its worth relative to other ideas, and its current position on its inevitable journey to farce status).
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Take the same au courant abstraction like say “defund the police” and apply the following meme templates to it: Distracted boyfriend American chopper Butterfly man Expanding brain Doge Harambe Money printer go brrr The one that sticks the best is the “price” of the idea
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Hell you could arrange memes on a nihilism spectrum from doge to harambe perhaps and apply them to lots of ideas and literally price them by likes/ratios and create an actual prediction market based on memes, a formal version of what we do on Twitter anarchically
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