Post AV6useEOqApZeM9VPU by Hamishcampbell@campaign.openworlds.info
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(DIR) Post #AV6useEOqApZeM9VPU by Hamishcampbell@campaign.openworlds.info
2023-04-28T10:41:49Z
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My use of #hashtags is confusing a lot of people, good to have some signal in the noise on this subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext am using them in the way the #WWW was designed to use them.#KISS
(DIR) Post #AV6user2WVjtaCEMdc by dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
2023-04-28T11:21:31Z
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@HamishcampbellWe typically found little to be confusing about your hashtags, once you explained them. For example, we didn't understand what you meant by #stupidIndividualism until you linked it to #postModern notions of individualism.We absolutely love your #dotCons tag to describe the likes of the #CAGEMAFIA (eg. Cloudflare-Amazon-Google-TwitterBuyer-Microsoft-Apple-Fakebook-IBM-Akamai cabal).We will continue to use that hashtag until the threat of #technoFeudalism is over.
(DIR) Post #AV6usfjHGr7mIPbgB6 by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
2023-04-28T12:23:26.974767Z
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I'm curious about this. What are postmodern notions of individualism, and how is this distinct from the prior notion of individualism such that it makes a key distinction so we can call one form stupid and the other not stupid?
(DIR) Post #AV79Z8M0dMWIavrfUm by dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
2023-04-28T13:49:27Z
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@Hamishcampbell @sj_zeroTouche. Yes, individualism in many forms is bad, but there is a #postModern form that went unnoticed and indeed celebrated for decades and that is the, "if-you-believe-it-then-it-is-true" form, and it was basically allowed to permeate all forms of media, and the effects of which still affect us today.
(DIR) Post #AV79Z8scg6bkE57iKW by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
2023-04-28T15:08:00.547111Z
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So the modern skeptic question is "how do I know I exist", and one response to that was "I think therefore I am", but the postmodern extrapolation of that appears to be "I think therefore I am therefore I am whatever I think and so is everything else because I can't actually count on anything else objectively speaking"And the danger of this becoming a major cultural force that's separate from standard modern liberal conception of individualism is that postmodern radical individualism that doesn't even agree that objective facts exist which contributes to the "two screens" problem we've got.Am I on the right track?
(DIR) Post #AV7BEOgwtZE55mtmxE by dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
2023-04-28T15:15:26Z
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@Hamishcampbell @sj_zeroThat seems to be an example of it.What do you mean by "two screens problem"? Is that where two people can see different statistics that can lead them down a path of towards division? Or something else?
(DIR) Post #AV7BESHZXrIuEF3ZxI by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
2023-04-28T15:26:41.707127Z
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I made a bit of a mistake referring to it. The actual phrase is "one screen, two movies" referring to a pop politics idea that there's a disconnect between different political factions and despite living in the same world they're seeing completely different things. It seems to me that this would be a natural consequences of the rejection of an idea of objective facts, so instead of learning what data everyone has and trying to come up with a truth that integrates all the facts you have one sides subjectively held facts and the other sides subjectively held facts and you can never agree on anything because you can't even start from a remotely common data set.
(DIR) Post #AV7BFTtL31wlVcD84G by Hamishcampbell@campaign.openworlds.info
2023-04-28T15:19:17Z
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@dsfgs @sj_zero My polemical take on this is 99.9% of the #postmodernist and western #Buddhists I have meet and worked with have been at best a waste of space and at worst nasty and destructive... on a less polemical view, yes dogmatic "no such thing as reality" is likely the problem.
(DIR) Post #AV7CLi3BQ1DJ75LigS by dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
2023-04-28T15:36:30Z
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@Hamishcampbell @sj_zeroYes, apparently a lot of #PRManagers and #writers for #politicians know how to write to two audiences at the same time. It's really one of the most #dishonest of skills.Most of the time it seems to revolve around saying as little as possible and repeating #focusGroup-tested three-word-slogans, but entire speeches can be written that mean different things to different people.
(DIR) Post #AV7DZTYSD46QAF6W24 by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
2023-04-28T15:52:55.216079Z
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I can absolutely believe that. Throw the right platitudes out without crossing the line into actually advocating anything, then you can say something two different people interpret two completely different ways.I remember one election in the 2000s, and one of the things I said was "the worst thing a politician can ever do is actually tell you what they plan to do; if you don't say anything people can imagine whatever policy they want in your words. If you say what you're going to do then they can disagree with it".
(DIR) Post #AV7GBVR1rpJwuMtRC4 by dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
2023-04-28T16:06:25Z
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@Hamishcampbell @sj_zeroImagine if, by law, a candidate had to outline concrete #policies to be duly elected.
(DIR) Post #AV7GBWXRlS34KYu4ps by Hamishcampbell@campaign.openworlds.info
2023-04-28T16:12:26Z
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@dsfgs @sj_zero am more messy - imagine if people trusted each other.