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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Of the 3 criteria, which I think are each almost necessary and collectively almost sufficient, it’s the #2, amirite-mockery humor that makes is awkward to tag explicitly. Though I think I have a decent, broad sense of humor both as consumer and producer, it’s cringe to claim this
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But I don’t know how else to describe this. It’s not humorlessness only. It’s narrow humor range. If life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think, perhaps it’s rare to have high humor and emotion range. Humor is an anti-emotion in a way.
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Humor is how intense feelings you didn’t know you had present their ridiculous aspect and find release. So there’s almost a zero-sum there based on a personality set point. You can laugh more or feel more. It’s not a choice, it’s a trait.
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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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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
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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