I think he’s to some extent a true believer in the bait, as in he doesn’t actually think about what he’s saying actually means. Outrage is engagement and engagement is communication and that’s a success. I don’t think the actual proposal here crosses his mind, just that he can picture a high view or reply count in the corner.
If you’ll allow me to be a little pretentious I think this is downstream from the current cultural explosion of willful ignorance. Like genuine nihilism about why people exchange information, why they would use a communication tool like Twitter at all, and just such a cynical understanding of what it means to share ideas with other people.
My god I’m turning into Jorkin Peanitson. I gotta stop typing before I start complaining about the strangulation of capital M Meaning and how it relates to dreaming about my grandparents
Nah you’re good. Baudrillard was ranting about the shape of the message and it’s intended reaction to it being so far removed from its actual meaning far earlier than Peterson started going on his benzo-withdrawal sermons.
You’re right in that to people like this words, and to an extent, all communication have lost any meaning beyond being levers that, if you use them in the right order, you get the food pellets (engagement, money, clout, access, etc.).
Their thought process is not different from that of a lab rat in a maze, except that the rat is physiologically incapable of structured thought, so I won’t hold it against it if it does whatever it can to get the food pellets. This person has chosen to not have any further thoughts beyond that. All the more reason to ignore them.
I think he’s to some extent a true believer in the bait, as in he doesn’t actually think about what he’s saying actually means. Outrage is engagement and engagement is communication and that’s a success. I don’t think the actual proposal here crosses his mind, just that he can picture a high view or reply count in the corner.
If you’ll allow me to be a little pretentious I think this is downstream from the current cultural explosion of willful ignorance. Like genuine nihilism about why people exchange information, why they would use a communication tool like Twitter at all, and just such a cynical understanding of what it means to share ideas with other people.
My god I’m turning into Jorkin Peanitson. I gotta stop typing before I start complaining about the strangulation of capital M Meaning and how it relates to dreaming about my grandparents
Nah you’re good. Baudrillard was ranting about the shape of the message and it’s intended reaction to it being so far removed from its actual meaning far earlier than Peterson started going on his benzo-withdrawal sermons.
You’re right in that to people like this words, and to an extent, all communication have lost any meaning beyond being levers that, if you use them in the right order, you get the food pellets (engagement, money, clout, access, etc.).
Their thought process is not different from that of a lab rat in a maze, except that the rat is physiologically incapable of structured thought, so I won’t hold it against it if it does whatever it can to get the food pellets. This person has chosen to not have any further thoughts beyond that. All the more reason to ignore them.