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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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Yep, those who are themselves past the critical point on the other side. Bunch of deep blue-pilled types trying to redpill each other. Cultists trying to deprogram opposed cultists. Me, I drop any friend bitten by zombies on any side, though they usually drop me first.
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My own learning curve: Phase 1, ignoring, 2000-09: noticing but blithely ignoring clear early signs as “depressing to think about” Phase 2, denial 2009-13: “surely this will never get worse than fringe crackpottery?”
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Phase 3, rationalization, 2014-15: “okay this is a thing, gotta culture-war-proof of my social media. It’s a problem with real causes that will get addressed, and then storm will pass.” Phase 4, siege, 2016-17: “ah shit, those of us NOT invested are the fringe crackpots now”
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Phase 5, normalization, 2018-19: “Shit, this has no real cause or resolution, it’s a way of life for these people. Need active countermeasures and zero-tolerance defenses against it penetrating my life. This is now a cost of having a life beyond domestic siege now.”
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Phase 6, endgame, 2020: “well, this might be weaponized by a virus and kill us all. It’s not a stable or nornalizable situation.”
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The main reason my neck of the woods has been largely free of culture warring, beyond a few border skirmishes, is not ant kind of foresight or planning. It’s pure laziness. For web properties to become targets or loci of the war, they need to be highly newbie friendly.
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I’ve been too lazy to make anything I do particularly accessible, learnable, or coherent enough to sustain aesthetic projections. That’s a fancy way of saying my shit is a fragmented mess that does not reward or reinforce the 3 core traits. It’s not worth colonizing as a warzone.
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anything that is a result of laziness is highly commendable. oh and I recently made the statement "I have a degree in computer science. I know how to do things efficiently in a lazy way"
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