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You just have to internalize social realism. Intelligent discourse is a losing proposition. In the social market, whatever captures people's interest _is_ defi
by kelseyfrog 4y ago
You just have to internalize social realism.
Intelligent discourse is a losing proposition. In the social market, whatever captures people's interest _is_ definitionally speaking the most important social thing. If intelligent discourse isn't capturing social attention then it's not socially valuable.
This shouldn't be news to anyone familiar with Society of the Spectacle. If you want sorcery over the spectacle, there are much better ways than pining for intelligent discourse.
- nine_k 4y ago"Most important" and "most captivating" are not exactly the same things, because people's attention is imperfect. Hence the ability to play the meta game, to capture and direct mass attention, is what remains the most efficacious skill, as it has been for centuries, if not millennia. Sadly, it is rarely used to direct the social attention towards a more intelligent discourse.
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