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The trouble with speaking to lions is that no one has made a good user on-boarding ramp that helps educate you on their grammatical framework and audio-visual cues. https://t.co/2Y18kPs388
A pattern'ed language, you say?https://t.co/Dl5yJHw2c3
"a kind of phase transition in which [...] language crystallizes out abruptly as grammar rules are intuited [...] a language switches from seeming like a random jumble of words to a highly structured communication system that is rich in information." https://t.co/R1hzAmx0t8
Visual language is meaningless if the meaning behind the imagery is outside of your frame of reference. Like the blindness to mouthsounds from other languages. Ones you aren't wired to pick up on in your youth; your lived experience biases your attention.https://t.co/MbGmZuGSWl
I still remember all the times my mom was trying to teach me to color inside the lines. Tools our culture uses to help young children distill meaning out of glyphs.https://t.co/M4MdUup3Ke
Kids these days, throwing paper airplanes around the classroom to pass notes behind the teacher's back. Like prisoners passing notes between the caged bars of thought - hiding from those who would seek to control your social network.https://t.co/eTsYxsx30H
The symbolic meaning of paperplanes, only conceptually relevant to a select few. Ideas that only children can speak, of which their parents are blind to.https://t.co/MMlVSN5bBh
Schools mean to train you up with the lore your society holds dear, if only so that they might speak intelligibly.https://t.co/KBOxJFj2te
I can not intuit these words. They are bad words, clearly.https://t.co/Ed8ur3T84M
Ontology is hard. Even more when we damage children's with ontological propaganda.https://t.co/xlzMQM4vuI
What does resist mean?Are you a resistor?Do you prevent the flow of electrons and generate heat?https://t.co/IRJoOe9L9G
Messy things, information. It just gets everywhere, and can't be organized easily without circumventing the cap-theorem or undermining Godel's incompleteness theorem.https://t.co/8ODuvlscAz
want to aks you a question, have you ever heard of the concept of metathesis? https://t.co/iRK2f5LFwj
Fads, like viruses, imposed by those with power.https://t.co/pTK7PgwF0i
Afraid of change, institutions lock down language and gatekeep the information flow. Preventing novel and neutral mutations.https://t.co/tVK8apwz0G
If society was a sexual being, a sort of super organism, what would it's fetish be?Gatekeep me daddy.https://t.co/BJO2yLu31z
#DaddyGateKeepinghttps://t.co/Jz0qRYLZuW
Gatekeeping the Overton Windows of acceptable discourse.Shame me for gatekeeping? #thatsmyfetishhttps://t.co/SnzeuksANq
"People who retweet Quillette are actually human garbage - there are no exceptions" - some anonDoes going meta on gatekeeping behavior in public (in relation to it's impact on preference falsification) mean that I am human garbage?Am I doing it right? https://t.co/2fVTUgQffM
People police me over language. Sometime different groups police the same word, but toward two different ends. It make me so mad I could vomit.Freedom of speech & the evolution of language as a group sibboleth.https://t.co/Wmvw8VkwpdCostly signaling.https://t.co/x4pm5VbgOe
Leo Tolstoy's treatise on Art, but translate the concepts of "art" =>"memetic construct", and "counterfeit" =>"poor aesthetic"https://t.co/jweMxHCuwF
~Public meme'ing is mostly imposed on communities that can’t defend themselves from it. Rarely do you see public memes spoiling aesthetic neighborhoods.~https://t.co/bpbAWi7I9q
~Have you ever made a meme so aesthetic that it made someone appreciate being alive at least a little bit?~https://t.co/XotKU3e3qa
~my thinking is that threats of public memes are (relatively harmless) cultural aesthetic cohesion drills~https://t.co/2tmwd9iKUO
"An aesthetic work of memetics destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between the infected and the memeticist." - Leo Tolstoy, Probably. https://t.co/8Vcy1If6dP
“The business of memes lies just in this, -- to make an aesthetic understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”― Leo Tolstoy, What is Aesthetic?, Probably. https://t.co/M11sGYPqMt
“What is precious to us in a memewright's work is the power of their dreams and not the architectural structure that they meme within.”― Leo Tolstoy, What *ARE* memes? We just don't know. https://t.co/02kwjkFKRf
"A memeticist is never an egoist as at the moment of memetic inspiration. At such times it seems to them that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than their meme." ― Leo Tolstoy, The Ballsacks, Probably https://t.co/uPlFKmddJo
"Autists are those whom use their memes without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of meme'ing is not common, but it is essential for wrongthink'ing..."― Leo Tolstoy, 1984, Probably
"it is not necessary for the memeticist to remember the meme itself, just change their aesthetic in a way that will promote the spread of the (reconstructed) meme" ― Leo Tolstoy, The Lifecycle of Memes & Gatekeeping as a metamemetic theory of computation. https://t.co/wOpJ0BTehS
Down with this sort of thing.https://t.co/DT0aJW28c2
Chesterton's FenceChesterton's GatekeeperChesterton's Arbitrary stone in a field marking the dividing line between two countriesChesterton's shared cultural understanding of abstract symbolic representations of Schelling points that mark how far a king's decree reaches.
Its fun talking to Grok about my tweets.https://t.co/7x17aV0U7y