things aren't getting less complex/unpredictable/chaotic than in the 2010s, they're getting more so; but my sense of opportunity is around "treating the world as chunky and fact-y and "normal", with like the affect of a 1950's Statesman or Captain Of Industry"
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crockford.com/wrrrld/warning I think of this poem, and the world before you untie the string, the world of maps and illustrations.
Chunky World.
Like in the days when children had to memorize imports and exports.
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Chunky World isn't exactly reality, and we're more aware of that than ever, but I feel like we're entering a phase where creating a new Chunky World is the thing to do.
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There's, like, a British Empire Chunky World, and a post-1945 reboot Chunky World, and a Reagan-Thatcher reboot Chunky World (which I think is neoliberalism?) and postmodernism is "dissolving the illusion that Chunky World is the world"?
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I see/feel this trend too, and even see myself responding that way, but wonder how much of it is merely reactive overcompensation for feeling seduced and betrayed by rarefied ideas as opposed to sensing actual opportunities in atoms.
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There’s an angry “all maps are fake news made by craven fraud elites” tenor that shows up in a lot of the supposed building being closer to “Nordic yes Chad” build-larping than meaningful building driven by an interesting idea.
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yeah, my spidey sense says those guys are not going to be very impactful.
anybody can be a nonsense shitposter mystic chaos monkey, there are many kinds of these, the characters in the Foundation books basically think of them as rabble and plan around them
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there are ALSO a bunch of fake-news-craven-fraud-elites, to be clear, I definitely think that is a thing
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Fox/lion circulation of elites includes fake foxes and fake lions
I think I estimate the cost of fake maps and fake builds to be much higher than you, and the creation of real maps and real builds much more fragile, uncertain, and unpredictable.
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Machiavelli terms elaborated by Pareto in his circulation of elites theory

