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if they wanted any degree or rigour or truth, they could just . . . look stuff up? but no . . they were jockeying for local collective consensus—the moral truth about what everyone locally thought—or individual narrative hot takes https://t.co/mqwg9cFSXi
by consensus, i don’t mean “everyone agrees on the same thing” or even “everyone is happy about this,” but a sort of stable “everyone knows what everyone else thinks,” the tribe knows what it all thinks, and it’s stable, there’s no more changes based on what someone thinks
it almost reminds me of the middle-school boy kids puffing their chest and inventing these various stories about “that dragon that i slayed” or “this treasure i found” as other kids look on in awe and hierarchy-determining