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Whoa. I have the accounts mentioned in this already blocked. I block very few accounts on here, but when I do it's to avoid the blast radiuses of cultural battlefields. I even attempted to coined "Meme-Bombing" to describe these spaces (off the back of 'culture wars' metaphor). https://t.co/gRCWrZcprF
Beef-only thinking be like: https://t.co/3aTlKsWeZN
So if we posit that much of this is posturing and benign, and in a sense a form of manufactured celebrity... It occurs to me that we live in a world wher the internet has made us all prosumers.Any 'mook' can become a 'knight' if they are skilled enough.https://t.co/3RnG99z1Rh
Why don't you trust me? Don't you trust me? When are you going to trust me? Are you ever going to trust me?https://t.co/kR9TRWDnEd
A 'knight' in the meme war lives and dies by their personal brand. Their 'mook' armies march to drums of beef-only thinking.Loyalists pillaging social capital in an endless war. Thumping merch-laden chests, using the backs of tombs filled with teachings of those they worship.
I am left wondering what it means to be an ant trapped in a soviet bunker - fighting endlessly in the dark, cannibalizing the new blood as the abandoned meta-colony seeks to persist despite itself.How quickly did they escape when an option was presented to them? https://t.co/8NpTRYI5jL
"Behavioral biologist Bert Hölldobler explains how ants determine superiority through mock battles that only rarely evolve into violence. Such fights benefit both opponents by successfully communicating a hostile message while avoiding injury."https://t.co/CGlQFEcTSv