I concluded about 3y ago that people invested past critical point in culture war are beyond my ability to influence in any way. I’m decent at ordinary influence but not cult deprogramming. But many are convinced they can “rescue” their “lost” peers. Guess who they are?
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It’s not that thinking preference implies high quality thought or that feeling preference implies refined, nuanced emotional processing. It just means you lean towards thinking by default or feeling by default. Not that you’re good at it.
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Anyhoo, not sure where I was going with the thread. I guess it’s sort of an update to my 2017 culture war map, and the internet of beefs post this year. I’ve concluded we’re in a chronic end-of-history conflict with no vaccine, so wear a culture-war mask and get on with your life
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Adding this thought here. There’s an aspect of inability to play here, as a core culture-warrior trait. They can do sports, and play cat-mouse, or bully, but not play. Important exception is a subset of shitposting edgelords. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1284658772384702464?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1284658772384702464 …
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The distinction is probably finite-game play (Huizenga) vs infinite-game play (Carse). The former strives to win (“own the libs” and “spot the your/you’re error” are clear examples). It’s play of sorts and there is laughter, but it’s not jumping-in-puddles type fun.
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“Games Culture Warriors Play” would be a good inventory to attempt.
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You can have it both but it takes immense effort of self knowledge. Often humor is a tool to oppress your feelings when the original oppressors are long gone. Once you recover your ability to feel, you can have a shot to recover another kind of humor.
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I learned so much from you about humor. It's a fascinating thought. What is the type of humor that you can have while staying in touch with your feelings.
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Kurt Vonnegut
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You can laugh more or you can cry more, this is true. I personally find much humor to be a felt experience. In some ways I find humor to be a bridge between intellect and feeling. Laughter is a physical reaction to certain trains of thought or unexpected physical actions/images.
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