We mistake the world we inherit for a world that must be this way. History, habit and collective belief conceal a more uncomfortable truth: our civilisation is simply what did happen, not what had to happen.
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Replicating Narrative Uncertainty
ππ£ π π£πͺπ©π¨πππ‘π‘: π΅π©π¦ π·π¦π³π’π€πͺπ΅πΊ π°π§ π’ π―π’π³π³π’π΅πͺπ·π¦ πͺπ΄ π―π°πΈπ©π¦π³π¦ π―π¦π’π³ π’π΄ π€π°π―π΄π¦π²πΆπ¦π―π΅πͺπ’π π’π΄ πͺπ΄ πͺπ΅π΄ π±π¦π³π΄πͺπ΄π΅π¦π―π€π¦. A key takeaway is that while the replication of systems of cultural narrative are the center of gravity, truth itself is (or becomes) incidental to the main game of communications system self-replication. Institutional “doom scrolling” is a generative method by […]
