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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Herr Dr Mr Modern Major General brrr Seitz

      Dunno how I didn’t notice this before... Biden is the clear choice of us mediocre mediocre types. Trump is for those in denial about their own mediocrity. This election is a referendum on mediocrity. Enlightened embrace of it vs reactionary denial of it.https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1323738382867091458 …

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      Herr Dr Mr Modern Major General brrr Seitz @BillSeitz
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      Trump win: disgust Biden win: mediocre relief
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Humanity’s problem as a species is that it’s the exceptional greats who *start* every new round of the infinite game, but the enlightened mediocrities who keep it going until the next great renewal. The clueless mediocrities are the spanner in the works of this beautiful machine.

      1:59 PM - 3 Nov 2020
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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          The clueless mediocrities mistake their own mediocrity for greatness, try to restart the game on an empty vision tank, break the current game, and then blame “bureaucracy” for their own profound lack of imagination and nerve.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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          In 2016 the right response to “Make America Great Again” was “with what?” Then as now, they had no actual answer. It was just cover for vandalism. Today, “build back better,” in the true spirit of enlightened mediocrity, isn’t even trying to lay claim to imagination or nerve.

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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          I suppose it’s not lost on people that maga and bbb are the same reactionary sentiment. They just differ in magnitude and backward time horizon. maga: magnitude = absolute ‘great’ by some nostalgic 1955 standard bbb: magnitude = small relative delta ‘better’ by a 2015 standard

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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          absent ant actual ideas on either side, we on the neutral planet prefer the smaller, more cautious, step backwardspic.twitter.com/3g9cHIIipc

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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          😎https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1323752797670580226 …

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          gradatim ferociter(-5) > audacter salire (-70)
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        1. Dan Hon‏ @hondanhon Nov 3
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          Mediocre makes maintenance.

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