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the matrix view of twitter occasionally reveals itself to me. I feel like I have about 80% clarity rn. (I never remember to tweet when I have 90-95% clarity). I almost wanna say “turn it off, it’s too powerful”- but I look again and I am transfixed. It’s a superhuman system https://t.co/HLLFsYJQgf
I think people get a little too anthropocentric when thinking about things - there are pros and cons to that - but I think if you really want to understand twitter it helps to simultaneously have a model of it where it’s about thoughts, not people. The Selfish Meme
one of the core driving forces of twitter is something I’m temp-labelling “the perfect utterance problem” basically nobody can make perfect utterances bc of the limits of communication imperfect utterances chafe and frustrate people and inspire retaliatory utterances
it’s really terrifying and beautiful when you connect the dots and see how a string of QTs and replies is a map of people’s dysfunctions and fears. Twitter is a collaborative freeform MMO text-theater that reaches right into people’s guts and the writhing collective unconscious
in this sense twitter is hyper-real, much more so than the casual drudgery of everyday life. Twitter is War, Twitter is Sport, Twitter is Dance, Twitter is Dream, Twitter is Love, Twitter is Hate. The POTUS, the Pope - all have the same 280 characters you do. All can @ all.
when I am close to perfect clarity I realize that theory and models are all tracing in the sand, and the only mere thing that matters is to embody love and grace in the deepest and fullest sense I possibly can. It is the only move that truly matters https://t.co/gyol4zzt3h
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There is an art to replying and commenting, and probably like 60-70% of people I’ve seen on the internet fail at it. The important thing is not to speak your mind, but to “support” the OP. You can support them by disagreeing well & you can “mis-support” them by agreeing stupidly
...what is true is already so... https://t.co/RvuQwSEvn1
the perfect utterance problem is a metaphorical subset of the perfect human problem. no utterance can be perfect as no human is perfect. and yet it is through our imperfections that we arrive at anything worth speaking of. frustration with imperfection is frustration with oneself
many are wearing themselves to the bone searching for a sign that “it’s okay”, that one can become okay, perhaps by clawing towards perfection one can reach a semblance of okay. the cosmic joke is that it was always okay; it becomes okay by being okay with being not-okay