A good measure of cultural fragmentation is how far on average a joke has to travel out of context for it to cause offense When jokes hit a mean free path of one degree on social graph you’ve hit anarchy
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Replying to @antoniogm @APXHard
Yes, though you appear to have missed the 'I encourage you' joke. I've met Mark. I know something about his interests in empathy/emotion analysis. That was a dig at him I didn't expect you to get
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Replying to @vgr @antoniogm
I understand and empathize with people who are the but of jokes finally being able to speak up. I’m definitely glad to see the trend you’re talking about. I also see a parallel trend that you don’t seem to see, and seem disinterested in seeing.
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As someone with autism I’m used to the idea of “people will randomly get very angry at you for crossing social lines” and do not like seeing entirely new lines created and moved constantly. The creators of these lines cross them with impunity.
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My wife is Chinese. She finds “person of color” vs “colored person” very confusing and prefers to just say nothing lest she be accused of racism. So yes, empathy’s in fully play here. It just extends outside the limits of the self righteous blue tribe.
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Replying to @APXHard @antoniogm
There's certainly the whole hyperneurotypical-vs-autism-spectrum divide emerging. Life has gotten much harder for people on the spectrum yeah.
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But that's not in itself a reason the more complicated boundaries are bad. Just a problem to be solved.
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Replying to @vgr @antoniogm
I can see a comparison to massive economic global growth. Poverty is way way down world wide, while the Us middle clsss is struggling. I’d argue that overall economic freedom is up, for the extremely wealthy and the poorest of the world.
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make this argument to a poor person in rural American they’ll say “so we’ve shredded our social fabric to enrich foreigners and globalist who don’t dare our values?” As a humanist I’m happy to see less poverty. As a fan of liberal values I’m worried to see them under attack.
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To take my favorite humor genre, Simpsons--> South Park--> Futurama --> Rick and Morty has managed to stay ahead of this cultural globalization curve well. So it can be done. Just takes imagination.
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Replying to @vgr @antoniogm
I think the trend exists but is over exaggerated in a lot of places. Flip side is a lot of my jokes wouldn’t have had an audience 10 years ago.
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