Outrage is now a sort of forking mechanism that slices new communities out of power sparring over object-level territory so arbitrary that rules like “don’t eat a burrito served to you by a white person” emergehttps://twitter.com/esyudkowsky/status/1010501006277267462 …
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Ultimately, the safest path is to become one of the more influential enforcers yourself. It’s hard to know exactly how to do that, so mostly you just see people standing adjacent to popular outrage & repeating the words, hoping some Vox writer eventually credits them
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This is basically the dynamics of Versailles. Louis XIV deliberately made sure that no fixed rules existed, forcing the nobles to spend more and more time at Versailles just to keep up with the rapidly-changing etiquette. http://mentalfloss.com/article/93297/art-power-how-louis-xiv-ruled-france-ballet …
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