along the way I got to thinking about how the thing some people struggle with about slurs is how it’s... sentiment encoded into symbols. I think you could theoretically turn an innocuous word into a slur if you speak it with enough venom & vitriol. These things do drift over time
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Being born in 1990 I think I underestimate the degrees to which cinema/tv shaped culture and consciousness. I mean, it was already a natural part of my reality from day 1. I kind of use the my experience with the internet as a way of trying to relate backwards to the shifts
I like thinking of this as the anchor anecdote for thinking about television, sort of like how JLo’s dress launched Google Image search.
Trump would’ve been 7 years old, which is how old I was when Princess Diana died twitter.com/visakanv/statu
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Growing up in 90s Singapore with tv and video games and cinemas, and then the internet, I never understood the *point* of religion as it was practiced around me. We don’t really have major sites or even major natural wonders so everything felt inferior to the new gods
to a cultural newcomer (and all children are cultural newcomers), the reverence people have for the old gods seemed misplaced when the new gods build so much bigger
I didn’t get it until I went to India and witnessed temple cities in their proper scale and size and context
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Sri Mariamman Temple in front, Capital Tower looming over it, a gopuram of glass and steel. By the old gods and the new
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the meenakshi temple on the other hand, is something else. it's *massive*. it almost feels like a city by itself. it *is* the context. when you're in it, you feel small. you can feel the energy of the worshippers and devotees around you. it's somehow both high-
+ very grounding
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Still, nothing is quite as astounding to me as being able to text instantaneously with dozens of friends and thousands of friendlies all around the planet simultaneously. From my brain thru my fingers thru this magic rectangle thru satellites to your magic rectangle to you. Wild
Circling back to video games
video games are compelled (by competition), and ruthless gamer feedback- to produce good user interfaces.
“Skill trees” are themselves a good user interface for thinking about building complex skills in a progressive way
What this means is that gaming is innovating and onboarding new people etc etc in a way that, say, academia isn’t
Tangentially it’s also interesting to consider how gaming incentivizes the production of increasingly advanced hardware
consider all of this in relation to religion
🤔 a gamer could one day - and probably in my lifetime - have more power than the pope
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