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VV's Razor: when you're trying to choose between two ways of being, and you can't decide on which, pick whichever is less tacky https://t.co/tSq9qHsXqq
VV's Neoliberal: a market cultist who doesn't have any principles apart from the pursuit of profit at all cost. Like an addict, he will make any promise and pretend to hold any position without any intention of keeping it or any concern for others https://t.co/LpLmy4PYzk
VV’s theory of boredom https://t.co/Qv1FANvtJt
VV's Fridge Light Theory https://t.co/3JdCKkTak4
VV's Spray Tan Fallacy "Successful people do X, therefore if I want to be successful, I should do X." (technically a specific instantiation of causation/correlation confusion) https://t.co/VN7YqOvg7d
feel-smarts https://t.co/sYgvjXqZhJ
contempt https://t.co/U99yikWJOt
@lunavis @literalbanana @djmicrobeads My personal definition of contempt is “that which is poisonous” - ie if you are able to have negative feelings towards something and channel it into something healthy, it doesn’t count as contempt. This is an important distinction we need to have
slingshot theory https://t.co/DaDqCjs0Eu
I’ve mentioned an essay idea to several people in the past week and have received a lot of positive feedback about it. I call it the SLINGSHOT THEORY, loosely based on a sweet trick used by rocket scientists - using the gravity of a planetary body to add velocity to a spacecraft https://t.co/GIBM9fMcL3
the asshole problem https://t.co/cNC86MObxb
sacred comedy https://t.co/qFeOdxEFq1
One of my private beliefs that doesn’t translate very well is that true comedy is sacred. And not sacred as in solemn, but sacred as in profound. & even fart jokes can have a profundity to them if you get it right. But strangely few comedians seem to get it. Maybe I’m delusional
studying history = binge-watching past seasons of current affairs https://t.co/A2QtXZvz0O
if I could redesign my news consumption with a snap of the fingers, I would reduce it by about 90%, and replace most of it with history reading. reading history is like binge-watching past seasons of current affairs and you learn a lot more a lot quicker
being over-preemptive and uncharitable turns otherwise-neutral people against you https://t.co/1jb8pIicUy
Is there a term for when your behaviour/rhetoric is over-determined by (your anticipation of) the responses of your perceived opponents? 🤔 my instinct says “reactionary”, but turns out that that word is already loaded to mean something quite specific
@visakanv I come not to bury boredom, but to praise it! https://t.co/zkM3hsURnR