Sometimes when I read a tweet like this I imagine how much work it would take to explain it to my parents or siblings -- how many separate pieces of vocabulary/ideology they would have to learn. Then I become deeply conscious of what a niche social group I belong to.
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Last year I wouldn’t have understood it. Now I do. Not sure if a good or bad thing...
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Woah that is some language there
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The problem with that is you get into the weeds of explaining why things evolved the way they did with a mishmash of vocabularies that are mostly only understandable within their own sub domains.
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And they *are* larping. This is participatory knowing, not procedural or propositional. Inventing Rube-Goldberg-machine explanations takes all the fun out of it. Maybe a generation not yet born will come up with compelling explanations during the next Great Awakening.
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