👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
the early 2000s generated an incredibly diverse memetic ecosystem through isolation within reproductive niches (internet communities), and we are witnessing a veritable Cambrian explosion of memetic recombination and tribal warfare
the consequences will never be the same
I agree w the object level anime opinions (good localization matters), and abstain from commenting on the rest
but this thread really is of incredible anthropological interest; just how much context is required to fully understand what is happening here, the reference being made
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RT @0x49fa98
This thread does not go where you think it will. I don’t care about crunchy roll or this anime but damn, this is art https://twitter.com/Locksne…
https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1386358521730584579
the media decided that the fight was won, and now anyone disagreeing with its tenets is fair game to attack as a misogynistic deviant, because they're no longer allowed to be "simply ignorant", it's TYOOL like yikes lmao
it's just become Facts We All Know
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RT @ContraPoints
What happened to feminism? It was the center of discourse five years ago and now it’s just gone?
https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1386374791817539584
this feeling, in the beginning of the pandemic, is what drove me online initially, in search of voices sympathetic to the desire for measured discussion, without the inflammatory language currently in vogue
it seems it's going to keep me here for a bit longer
but, is the latter strategy even possible? will there be any deescalation of rhetoric, or will this just keep getting worse forever?
the discourse can stay polarized longer than I can stay socially solvent
you can tell who in the group isn't with it by watching who stays silent or only chimes in generically on these topics; this sort of camaraderie is inherently Straussian, relying on dogwhistles
which kind of sucks tbh; do I really gotta find new friends? or just wait it out?
wasn't really much I could do to respond to many of the things said without either lying or giving a very generic "I agree there are problems" and that's just boring af, not really what I want to do with friends
really can make one feel alienated from their social circles huh
I don't really disagree w/ many of the lib object-level positions, but the way in which they're shared, with highly emotional language that moralizes disagreements, making it effectively impossible to discuss openly without making yourself seem like the asshole; I'm not about it
spent time with some normie friends td, topic turned to Floyd, BLM, policing, surveillance etc. me & another techie started talking about opsec & threat models but were quickly outnumbered with the usual anti-{police,state} rhetoric; remembered why I'm on here in the first place
can you all please turn autocorrect back on. thanks
in the current youth culture, the pendulum has swung hard to the follower end; compliance & conformity are encouraged, expression expected to fit in the proper bounds
this is an anxious response to an increasingly uncertain world
but only agency will bring you equanimity
neither is inherently a better way, as a society needs both leaders & followers to function well
but the latter could use a bit more of the permissionless mindset
everything was invented by someone; all form is but illusory & ephemeral. rule-following does not guarantee safety.
other people see the world as an infinite space, w/ myriad possibilities available to you at each juncture; that society is trying to limit them to a set of predetermined options, unfairly
in this world, you succeed by figuring out what you want & how to get it, & then doing it
many see the world as a system of rules & roles, where your possibilities are constrained to the options you are given. they do not think to ask why this must be; it simply is the way things are.
in this world, you succeed by learning your role & following the rules properly
people make a lot of noise about something or other being a social construction, and it often sounds rather trite; like yeah no shit buddy we made it all up, doesn't make it not real.
but an aspect of this that gets missed often is that for many people, this is revelatory
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RT @seconds_0
Whitepill for everyone:
You don't need permission to do anything. You can simply do it.
Blackpill for everyone:
You seek permission to do things b…
https://twitter.com/seconds_0/status/1385979173882134529
theology is just remote-debugging the cosmos
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RT @nyanotech
attach and debug god
https://twitter.com/nyanotech/status/1386187484426477569
one of the dangers of premature abstraction is that you might reduce dimensionality incorrectly; luckily, all abstractions leak
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RT @chaosprime
all Nietzsche wanted was to immunize you against the disease where, because strength hurt you, you decide that you don't 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 to be strong because strength is 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1386052851114418184
i just wanna be left alone to do w/e I feel like, but I can't feel good about myself unless I pay my debt to family/society/the universe first, so I'll work to accrue enough resources to do so first.
i think if more of us were honest about this many conflicts could be avoided
if instead of pretending otherwise, and telling ourselves (and others) that we are motivated by high-minded selfless considerations, we admit that, no, we are driven by enlightened self-interest, we can more honestly structure our priorities and life plans
this mindset is rooted in what I like to call positive objectivist ethics; Rand had some good ideas but went wrong in their application. the single most valuable insight of hers, IMO, was that there is no such thing as altruism; humans do everything with self-interest in mind
