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Aug. 8th, 2022
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Aug. 8th, 2022 12:10 am2.1.10 Since nothing is inherent in anything else, the dialectic is a fairy tale. Contradictions are negotiated like the rest. They are built, not given.
--- Bruno Latour. The Pasteurization of France, 1993.
Exposing contradictions is one of the main purposes of a good fairy tale.
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Aug. 8th, 2022 12:13 pmI've decided to include the lyrics of The Sound of Silence into my medication practice.
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
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Aug. 8th, 2022 12:26 pm2.2.5 We may be understood, that is
surrounded,
diverted,
betrayed,
displaced,
transmitted,
but we are never understood well.
If a message is transported, then it is transformed.
We never get a message that is simply spread.
--- Bruno Latour. TPoF, 1993.
It follows that something going viral on a social network is an indication of the desire to not understand. The viral content must be a no-brainer that requires zero transformation effort on the part of the receiver, a person who's spending their mental effort elsewhere. "В одно ухо влетело, в другое вылетело" (Easy come, easy go). Recalling Searle's The Chinese Room Argument, we can start thinking about surface level understanding as an enhanced perception that can be relatively easy to subject to ML, which TikTok uses most successfully to parasitize on mental laziness.
