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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. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 13 Nov 2017
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      By "blogging" I mean specifically something like the meaningness project, your "gonzo density", manifesto-building etc.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Nov 2017
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      Yeah, chip-on-shoulder is not very workable for that. It can power things like standup, music, entrepreneurship, polemic, journalism, etc. Taleb is a rare longform resentment/spite guy.

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    3. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 13 Nov 2017
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      Entrepreneurship/polemic/journalism is roughly the exact combo I'm going for. Good disentanglement.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Nov 2017
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      Except in the rare cases of actual Count of Monte Cristo style actual revenge against people who provoked the resentment/spite, the emotion is generally an instant-gratification one, like scratching an itch, not an anticipation-based one in striatum circuitry

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    5. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 13 Nov 2017
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      We should deconstruct "resentment". I mean something like "desire to fight", which seems heart of all writing/shakering.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Nov 2017
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      Desire to fight can come from other sources, like the sheer joy of exercising your skill at it against a competent rival. Or basic survival.

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    7. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 13 Nov 2017
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      I don't have enough "theories of war" to know full difference between basic survival & narcissistic head-game.

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    8. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 13 Nov 2017
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      But I do feel my country (America) is dying and I want to "save" it somehow. (giving you my own worst strawman of me)

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Nov 2017
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      Yeah that's a toughie. I don't think anybody has a motivation problem with that particular goal. It's just a very, very hard goal. Like getting to Mars. Remember V 1.0 of the idea of America took a bunch of people going on perilous land/sea journeys. V2.0 was a bloody civil war

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    10. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 13 Nov 2017
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      Happy to talk more if you care, but I suspect you're more on @visakanv -level human interest beat & don't care at all :)

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Nov 2017
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      Yeah, I'm an unrepentant cosmopolitan globalist. "Saving" particular national or identity narratives makes me yawn as a mission.

      4:02 PM - 13 Nov 2017
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        2. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 13 Nov 2017
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          I mean, I've just got family here & stuff. *shrug*

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Nov 2017
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          Well, everybody's family's got to be somewhere :) Tying location to land for wandering ape species is actually an unnatural act requiring political ideological contortions cf Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochthon 

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