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Tom Pendergast's avatar

Oh boy, you’ve put your finger on this major strain in our culture. It’s hard to describe and it slips away as you try to pin it down, but I feel it too. The only thing I know how to do in response is to put my hands on things, make things. It helps for a while.

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Amy Letter's avatar

I feel like I'm trying to put my finger on it, but it is slippery. This is an attempt, and a good faith good effort I think, but I'm still not quite nailing it down. I'm going to keep working on it tho. :) And yes: making things is everything 🙏 Thank you as always! :)

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Carol Roh Spaulding's avatar

What a compelling review, one of the best pieces you've done for this forum. This author is on my list, now. Thank you!

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Cabot O'Callaghan's avatar

Gah. This made me feel less crazy and alone. A feast of recognition.

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Imperceptible Relics's avatar

The first part reminds me of that newsite that operated in the early oughts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eXile

The second part reminded me of Richard Barbrook's thought probe, particularly the A/B test on page 34-5: https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/0585-INC_NN10-totaal-RGB.pdf

You may be familiar, but I also I have a lot to learn and will check out "Nothing is True and Everything is Possible" and "This is not Propaganda." particularly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#Elections role.

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