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[cracks knuckles] ok let me try and fit FAN into this frame the big world problem is, in a handful of words: fragmentation, disorientation, disillusionment, alienation, loneliness, distrust, despair FAN is a kind of bottom-up chaos-surfing syncretic MMA-dance to address 👆🏾 https://t.co/jOCukrSKZs
why don’t I just adopt any of the other existing frameworks? well i tried everything I could find, and nothing ever quite worked for me, so my thing is just my personal remix of all the other things. The big things people seem to miss are humor, irreverence, communion, service
to put it in terms of other people’s work, if that helps, I’m largely remixing Alan Watts, Emerson, Joseph Campbell and Nietzsche. Mr. Rogers, George Carlin. And ok fine some Jesus and Buddha; look those guys *were* on to some good shit but we don’t have to get weird about it
another way of framing all of this is… live your life like you’re in a heroic anime/jrpg. Make friends. Help people on their side quests. Earn their trust and loyalty. Triumph together with the power of friendship for the benefit of all. Help the old lady find her frying pan https://t.co/SYdPSfMfKz
The frying pan side quests are very important!!! It’s always the mfs who think that they’re too busy to help the old ladies who end up weirdly twisted; they’ve drunk their own kool-aid. we are just a bunch of anxious monke on big spinny rock in infinite space. help the old lady https://t.co/pt6VvXjMZt
This quote has been sticking with me. I feel like it applies perfectly to thinking about internet celebrity and going viral. You have to have a sense of the broader context, and be able to not take it personally, not fall into the trap of thinking "I went viral, I'm so great" https://t.co/6uqB4bYKZQ
back to the FAN model: the cool thing about the 3-pronged approach is that you don’t have to overdo any one thing too much to the point that you get pwned by it’s dark side. It not only encourages you to not take yourself too seriously, it encourages you to *switch modes* https://t.co/YsF6RSbOCA
Sermonposting without shitposting gets you pedestalized, which is dehumanizing Shitpost too much and nobody takes you seriously, which is also kind of dehumanizing You can nerdpost forever quite happily, but it can be a lonely and frustrating experience The flow is the point https://t.co/HYsXv2Bhpc
here I think there’s something about my background that makes me different than a lot of others. I was born and raised an ethnic minority in a diverse country in the cultural crosswinds between East and West, so in a way I’ve spent my whole life training to be a chaos surfer https://t.co/JawMaRFMGV
When I was a kid, I was brought up in a Hindu household. I went to an Anglican kindergarten. I had friends who were Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Sikh. Heartland Singaporeans can be all-embracing, praying to gods from multiple religions at the same altar. Maximim coverage! https://t.co/Wg0cQvq3fC
@visakanv just read through the thread and trying to think if I have any new thoughts/questions/comments and nothing's clearly arising adhd'ily skipping over to your smartphone thread... I'd like to see you write more about what's unimaginable to most people that you can imagine!
@Malcolm_Ocean here's a pic of a reality in singapore that we take for granted that a lot of the world probably finds hard to imagine – religious leaders coming together to bless a Formula 1 track: https://t.co/GRrcw1oIOJ
@sharanvkaur https://t.co/PrsYmtYV5u
@Malcolm_Ocean i would say it's directly related I am going to put together a team that nobody imagines is possible i repeatedly get "omg visa knows X? what is this, worlds colliding, cross over episode..." I'm going to do this 100x and be a switchboard for many seemingly unrelated worlds https://t.co/loMuCDcwG3
