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> “Yeah, they’re role-playing together. They’re role-playing the collective understanding of the conspiracy theory.” This is how the flat-Earthers started, is
by js2 5y ago
> “Yeah, they’re role-playing together. They’re role-playing the collective understanding of the conspiracy theory.”
This is how the flat-Earthers started, isn't it? But every parody eventually runs into Poe's law.
I love sarcasm. My daughter loves it too. We sometimes engage in conversation where we're both clearly being sarcastic, but we get increasingly dead pan about it till neither of us is quite sure if the other is still being sarcastic. She termed this a "sarcasm trap" a few years ago. We find it fun to see how far we can take it.
Birds Aren't Real seems way too on the nose for anyone to mistake it as serious, but there are some truly naive/gullible people in the world.
- b3morales 5y agoMost definitely. Feels like an old comment of mine is relevant here again https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27731523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27731523 Foucault's Pendulum is a (fiction) book about some "Birds Aren't Real"-type protagonists who cross paths with people who went down the rabbit hole. They try to play their own game while staying separate from it. It does not end well.
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- dharmab 5y agoA friend of mine works with a person who seems to honestly believe Birds Aren't Real (at least in part). I made a joke about this when we were fighting bird monsters in a video game and he groaned and told me the story.