Absence of rabbits is not a thing—we don’t need a word “rabbitlessness.” Absence of inauthenticity is not a thing either. Just an absence.
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Realized recently that I care much less about this than most because I never watch TV, surf with AdBlock+, etc.; so never see advertising.
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Maybe if I got a normal contemporary dose of advertising, I would believe in “authenticity” too.
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I think ’s attempt at steelmanning went wrong, tho. He’s entirely missed the point of the thing he’s critiquing (if I’ve identified it).
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And that point of the thing is? (I assume you mean whatever X I've reified as 'cultural ether')
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Well, I don’t think there’s a thing that corresponds to that, exactly… However,
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Certainly. My point is, you don't need mysticism to account for how meaning is constructed socially.
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On the other hand, I think meaning is a social thing *from the start*, not an coordination of individual mind-stuff.
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This is the point that is hardest to get across to (e.g) cognitive scientists. I spent years doing that, in the late 1980s… Some got it
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It's hard to get across not because the social-as-primitive way actually has problems, not because people are being obstinate
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That was certainly my impression at the time! I worried I might have been being uncharitable, though :-)

