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while one was a CIA op enriching the Mexican cartels and the the other a memetic emergence supported by big pharma, what they both share is that there were deep unmet needs in both groups receptive to these pharmaceutical hooks
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RT @Lur_King02
@CandygirlLittle @coldhealing Hormones went through the quirky nerd community like crack did to black neighbourhoods in the 80s
https://twitter.com/Lur_King02/status/1605085529007349760
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in the latter, economic disenfranchisement & sociopolitical resentment
in the former, biomemetic disenfranchisement & resentment
well-adjusted people don't seek out chemical solutions to their problems; the question is whether the situation should be adjusted to or altered
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so, what sort of maladjustment leads to endocrine intervention? psychic tension generated from a mismatch between sex (biology) and gender (memetics); a perceived or desired social role at odds with one's biological fate
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RT @pee_zombie
we've been discussing for years how gender roles are taught to us by society, how we're pressured to adopt & perform them, how people can feel distress due to their inability/unwillingness to fit the…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1368421308757852163
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this alone isn't enough; there's also the archetypal nerd's sensitivity to memes & proficiency at symbolic manipulation
this memetic pathway shows them a way out of the quandary, adding a new degree of identity freedom, a dimension along which they can move to get unstuck
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this very memetic sensitivity is what enables the viral aspects of the spread of HRT; the maladjustment itself is not enough. this additional factor is what differentiates this phenomenon from the spread of crack, which had to be artificially driven
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RT @pee_zombie
@qorprate I use hijacking to indicate not that there's an agency causing this, but rather that acquiring certain memes is not always intentional or consensual; consider h…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1368601092297273350
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disclaimer that while im comparing trans social contagion to a Very Bad Thing, that doesnt automatically mean I think it is also bad; I'm specifically trying to look at one aspect of the phenomenon. pls dont come at me getting mad abkut this, thats no fun
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and yet another disclaimer, because there are many ways to misinterpret this thread; i am not attacking anyone, not claiming this is wrong to do in any way, not cla…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1368421312935378950
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@JCorvinus i'm using the typical definition, which yeah is about the p2p spread of memes
printing press... maybe, but that one is more driven by economic factors, so perhaps not quite the same. more comparable to the latest tiktok trend or twitter meme i'd say
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@pee_zombie So if I'm reading you correctly - your definition of 'social contagion' is purely about propagation effects? The adoption of the printing press would count, yes?