… So we must be very careful what we pretend to be.”
Or at least (says someone who shares Vonnegut’s — and Abigal Adam’s, and Dostoyevsky’s — birthday) we should take a considered approach to how we choose to present ourselves. Between the Titan submersible and the Russian coup-or-whatever, I have done a certain amount of self-censorship this week, although perhaps not enough…
The thing about social media is that it has incomprehensibly quickly accelerated the number of social interactions people are having, and the speed with which these grooves get carved.
— The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs) June 21, 2023
And anyway this whole thing misses the point entirely. He casts it as “the fascists won’t listen to us if we’re mean” when it’s really “you won’t get a critical mass of people on your side if you’re a dick all the time to everybody.”
— The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs) June 21, 2023
insofar as “eat the rich” is an effective slogan for socialism it is because the emphasis is on “you get to eat!” rather than “we killed the rich!” https://t.co/RccPlOVWCo
— post malone ergo propter malone (@PropterMalone) June 21, 2023
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