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Venkatesh Rao
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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      While politics adversely selects for *some* insincere shamelessness, putting an individual who literally lacks an entire emotional range in a key position that assumes it, is to break the system. Like putting a color-blind person in a job with an RGB decision-coding system.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      A broader zeitgeist that happened in the last few years is that “scene-making shameless person lacking a certain emotional chunk of emotional range” got recoded as “genius contrarian” the way “wears black turtleneck” got recoded as “Steve Jobs level visionary.”

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      Some dressed it up further with being on autism spectrum becoming an aspirational contrarian-genius claim. Basic logical error. Many geniuses being on the spectrum does not mean all on the spectrum are geniuses. Sadly, most just have compromised judgment with no upside.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      Anyhow, back to shame, insincerity, and hypocrisy becoming part of the OS again, and shamelessness, scene-making and cheater-detection going back to being occasionally useful and tolerable tactics, rather than treated as a lofty contrarian-genius-asshole philosophy of governance.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      In case you’re wondering why I’m focusing on cheater-detection as a pathology...https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1343975213424250881 …

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      Overactive cheater detection is at the root of a lot of societal problems. It’s not that people are dumb when acting under biases but that they’re only smart about problems framed as cheater-detection. You can work on eliminating 100 biases, or just on lowering cheater-response. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1343974533972197376 …
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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      Forgot perhaps the biggest piece of the shame/regret/forgiveness layer of the OS, which Biden is reinstalling: a proper place in public life for death and mourning, which occasion perhaps the most sincere displays of shame/regret/guilt/etc. Biden’s brought that back in a big way.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      Some people suspected the constant presence of the late Beau Biden in the narrative was more than a little staged. But there has been a core of sincere emotion there. The sense of this inauguration also being the first public mourning for 400k dead from Covid also feels real.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      I need to write something more careful about this “forgiveness” layer of the institutional OS. I wrote a version around block chains as a forgiveness technology a while back, but need to write something more general.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/25/blockchains-never-forget/ …

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      Stuff like this Arlington ceremony... they just didn’t seem meaningful when Trump did them. He seemed puzzled like a blind person at a silent movie. At some level he didn’t seem to get why people were doing somber ceremonies. I suspect he thought funerals are just extreme PC.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      There’s a sense of narrative claustrophobia being lifted. There’s a lot more room in the grand narrative for a spectrum of narratives that don’t need to all cohere. This pluralism is ironically what the trumpist narrative monoculture demonized as a monolith. Pure projection.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      It’s not that their story wasn’t being heard. They seemed to think it was the only one that had a right to be heard. When you’re used to a narrative monopoly, pluralism feels like censorship.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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          Jeez he’s walking the last block jogging over to barriers to shake hands. The instinct for humanizing optics on display here is the polar opposite of trump’s instinct for imperial grandiosity. I can’t recall how Trump did it, but I would guess limo to the footsteps.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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          Which is ironic, since Biden represents continuation of an imperial mode of US government but looks like Amtrak Joe, while Trump ran the show like a petty small town council but acted like an emperor

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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          Kamala Harris family is very Modern Family. They just need to add a gay couple in there to look like a nightmare to Hallmark channel.

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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          General thought: trad administrations are highly scaled systems with a necessary and meaningful distinction between backend and frontend. There is a minimum necessary theatricality to the front-end. It’s a UX metaphor. This reads as “fakeness” to libertarian-scale imaginations.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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          Trump may have slapped his name on skyscrapers but fundamentally didn’t get scale and backends. He managed like a small wealth-management family office. His base wanted small-scale wysiwyg dynamics. National budgets managed like small family budgets etc. All UX, no backend.

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