@admitsWrongIfProven likewise! but i feel like i’m offering a rather dark perspective! i’m grateful you think it makes your life better. we do have to understand what we are up against, i think.

@admitsWrongIfProven @light not working extra hard because of hate. falling into line, obeying the leader unconditionally, because of love of ones community in the face of an insidious enemy that existentially threatens it.

see https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/05/what-is-fascism/index.html

@admitsWrongIfProven @light i certainly agree, but the counterclaim would be that sufficiently demonizing a minority outgroup unlocks a kind and quality of coordination (i think a horrible, ugly kind and quality) worth the cost in conflict and the sacrifice of potential collaborators.

@admitsWrongIfProven just give it a few minutes to recover itself.

@admitsWrongIfProven just an idea!

@admitsWrongIfProven necromangly

@chrisp (i’m glad! i’m hoping i can help more people make sense of the idea…)

@admitsWrongIfProven you just treat every press organ that is not absolutely fawning of you as different faces of the same enemy, one blob emitting “fake news” whenever it is news you find unhelpful.

@admitsWrongIfProven as steve jobs would say, stay tuned.

maybe the answer is your faction should always loudly accuse the press as being and enemy and out to get you. it seems to work. they go every extra mile to prove they are evenhanded and unfairly maligned.

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@artcollisions maybe an iPad.

@artcollisions you might consider replacing them with your phone!

our phones are trying to make themselves our spouses, completing our sentences for us when we are half way through them.

“The one thing that you should not be able to say about my work is that I am not telling you what I really think. That is the price of entry to the worthwhile part of the Ideas industry. We may be bastards, but we are not bullshitting you.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ideas-that-cannot-be-spoken ht @AliceMarshall

one strange characteristic of our moment is we’ve developed new forms of a “republic of letters” whose participants view themselves as an intellectual elite, while the actual content of that elite discourse is memes or, at best, several hundred character interjections.

@realcaseyrollins@a.nti.social @realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social it can certainly feel that way too! i wonder if you ever found yourself using your depression, or musings on acting out from your depression in ways that would harm yourself or your relationships or loved ones, in a kind of psychological bargaining? that gets you close to the sense of the tweet.

@eARCwelder i think that was a key moment in his devolution. he was forced to abjectly (insincerely) apologize. i think he might have resigned from some boards. i think he tremendously resented that he could not play with loose historical musings in public, to him that was “censorship”. (i don’t think it’s because at the time he was so attached to the thesis, he felt it out-of-bounds to be told not just “you’re wrong” but “you’re bad” and even face professional consequences.)

@realcaseyrollins it’s kind of like a joke, only the opposite. but like a joke’s not funny if you have to explain it, if i explained this it’d just drain it of its punch. hopefully it’s hard for you to get because you’re not depressed a lot!

sometimes depression is an attempt to hold oneself for ransom before god.