Conceptual corvid currently fixated on organizational topology, design systems as languages, structured content as embodied doctrine, antifascism, and shitposting as a service.
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Jeff Eaton
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Reminded again of Jaques Ellul’s definition of propaganda — not a specific message, but the establishment of an information landscape where opposing ideas are crowded out by a cacophony of vaguely pro-regime ideas, none of which need be particularly convincing or even compatible with each other.
In particular, it explores the tension between “who you were” and “who you will be” — collapses it to “you are always becoming who you are.” I was growing horrified by my own past choices but unsure of my future ones, and Morrison’s writing gave me rare hope at a key time.
Cliche as it is, The Invisibles was a formative work for me. Not so much the first volume — it’s a good, bold series that stands head and shoulders above everything else I was reading at the time, but (for me at least) the life-altering stuff came near the end.
Very much looking forward to @eruditorumpress.com’s writing about the series.
The first step is to remove the people most likely to shape the ideas :.. which is why I am always going to point out
The FIRST thing Weiss did was get rid of Black and Brown reporters which journalism itself has been doing for years
And nobody said anything and still doesn’t
The amazing thing is that it’s always been a grim joke that you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
Now the DOJ has managed to turn quite a few Grand Juries into… deeply skeptical audiences.
last night @heyrocker.com nerdsniped me so hard I outlined a new presentation.
Only friends can target with that level of accuracy.
at its best historical mefi was a community of people who exercised a shared commitment to argue with each other in good faith. at its worst, an enormous dysfunctional polycule where everyone knew everyone’s hot buttons and mentioning the dishes was a MAD event
I think a lot of people assumed when Bannon talked about his “flood the zone” strategy that it was tactical, a way of winning individual news cycles or getting past scandals.
Post-Weiss CBS doesn’t have to be compelling, coherent, or successful; it just has to be part of the noise. A transformed CNN doesn’t have to convince moderates and liberals Trump is good; it just has to be part of the noise, making opposing thought more distant and abstract than the wall of sound.
