👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
homo sapiens is the cyborg monke
what truly differentiates us is not our bipedal posture, our hairlessness, nor our self-awareness
but rather our capacity for complex language, which comprises a memetic host, & hence allows for the integration of the natural and the artificial
if you're so smart why haven't you built a cognitive superstructure to inhabit while you untangle and soothe your childhood trauma?
the end result basically tends to be this
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RT @__ghostline
@levelsio
https://twitter.com/__ghostline/status/1411663522635911168
polarization has a tendency to be a one-way street, it begets more of itself, crystallizing all it touches, like a prion. it requires the rejection of ambiguity, as on a war footing you can't afford to be uncertain. if not with them, you're the enemy
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RT @pee_zombie
the discursive atmosphere had intensified where anything that wasn't an obvious signal of alignment was interpreted as a defection; you're questioning the practicality o…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1405677282312732681
answers are only required when someone's trying to sort you into ingroup or outgroup. this becomes an imperative only when one perceives themselves to be in a state of conflict. but once you put on the glasses of war, you see attacks everywhere you look; a self-ratcheting effect
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RT @DRMacIver
People you can't say "I don't know" to are not safe to be around.
https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1412104075081129986
another memetic occultist for the @chaosprime cult
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RT @SHOOTCIVILIANS
https://twitter.com/SHOOTCIVILIANS/status/1412041535764508672
I just witnessed a murder, or as I like to call it, corviewed..,...
don't feel like replying to yall individually so, here's a thread in response to all those who call this arrogant or deceptive, respectively
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RT @pee_zombie
a theme in the replies was that this sort of job listing is effectively a lie, and hence unethical & that to defend this practice is also wrong
I find this a rather interesting way of thinking about institutions & business relationships; rather binary and out of touch w/ realit…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1412159088201551879
if you truly want to be a cog, good on you; but you won't get very far by bemoaning the chaotic nature of reality, and hence that of its components. you can only externalize so much entropy, and there are diminishing returns. get comfortable w/ ambiguity or you'll be replaced.
cogs are, fundamentally, interchangeable. there's no cog so incredible that it cannot be replaced with another; the true scarcity is in drivers, those with agency, who can stare into the depths of chaos and choose a direction to go in. the cogs are naught but the mechanism.
the desire to see the world as rule-governed, and hence controllable through rule-following, is understandable; chaos is terrifying! but trying your hardest to be the best little cog you can will not save you from ruin; the thing about cogs is that they still need to be directed
there's a reason hiring is a multi stage process, as every layer of filters is imperfect, in both directions. false positives and negatives abound! the game is a probabilistic one, albeit skewed toward false negatives, as the cost of firing is huge. there's no righteousness here.
the world, for better or worse, has no such rules, no matter how much you'd love for it to; all is but ambiguous shades of gray and no one knows what they want. as such, mostly every business relationship is an iterated negotiation. why expect to get it just right the first time?
furthermore, it's quite telling that many see "applying for jobs where you don't quite meet the stated requirements" as arrogant, exaggerating ones qualifications, etc. this perspective seems to assume a sort of strict power relationship and formal protocol, with ironclad rules
expecting perfection from others and refusing to engage on any other terms can be a great way to excuse one's own discomfort with ambiguity
if you wish to interface with the real world, improving this capacity would be instrumental, as there's such thing as an ideal in reality
rather than accuse others of lacking in integrity, it may be useful to consider in which ones definition thereof may be rather arbitrary and non-universal. the world is not so simple as to be cleanly split into lying & truth-telling
such a yardstick can never be lived up to, setting the stage for constant disappointment; one can argue it has utility as an asymptote to aim for, but is this really better than setting realistic expectations? the platonic realm has much beauty to offer but it seldom matches ours
