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I read a book that blew my mind a little

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Re: I read a book that blew my mind a little

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Post by 2bitencryption »

as someone with zero understanding of how Twitter works: did this author actually click "post" on 20+ individual Tweets? And hope that Twitter presents them uninterrupted in chronological order?

Or does Twitter provide some way to write a "Medium.com style" article and have it broken into tweets?

Am I old or something? I'm not even 30 yet and I cannot wrap my brain around this format or what Twitter is supposed to provide.

Re: I read a book that blew my mind a little

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Post by carlgreene »

I am 90% through Wanting and it has also blown my mind. I knew a little about mimetic desire, but not the ins and outs as Girard thought about it.

The book pushed me to sell me “dream” car that I recently purchased and has me longing for a simpler life focused less on things that I want do to mimesis.

I don’t think mimesis is bad, but I when it’s used to coerce you to live a certain way or do certain things for the benefit of someone else it feels like you don’t have control. Which is the really mind blowing thing about this theory, that we don’t have control.

Re: I read a book that blew my mind a little

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Post by senectus1 »

2bitencryption wrote: post #21

as someone with zero understanding of how Twitter works: did this author actually click "post" on 20+ individual Tweets? And hope that Twitter presents them uninterrupted in chronological order? Or does Twitter provide some way to write a "Medium.com style" article and have it broken into tweets? Am I old or something? I'm not even 30 yet and I cannot wrap my brain around this format or what Twitter is supposed to pr…

there are tools that turn long tweets into multiple tweets. such as : https://www.twitlonger.com/

actually thats not a great example sorry.

but FYI it looks like he was using this service: https://hypefury.com/

Re: I read a book that blew my mind a little

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Post by YeBanKo »

> Of course, none of these desires relate in any way to your personal happiness or true desires.

This is where I stopped reading, because of course the most egregious false generalization typically starts with words like “of coruse”, “it is easy to see”, “obviosly” etc.

Re: I read a book that blew my mind a little

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Post by amelius »

bink wrote: post #18
amelius wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that going against it, while noble, is like swimming against the current of a tsunami. A single actor can't change how society works, and has to obey the laws of that society.

Is the point to change how society works or just to recognize it and not let it change how you work?

The only way to achieve that is to live as an outcast, which is generally a much less preferable situation to be in.

Re: I read a book that blew my mind a little

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Post by _3u10 »

If you are interested in this sort of thing I’d highly suggest reading The Spectacle of Society by Guy Debord. Or just read the first paragraph which summarizes the book in its entirety:

The spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relation between people mediated by images.

Re: I read a book that blew my mind a little

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Post by jes5199 »

2bitencryption wrote: post #21

as someone with zero understanding of how Twitter works: did this author actually click "post" on 20+ individual Tweets? And hope that Twitter presents them uninterrupted in chronological order? Or does Twitter provide some way to write a "Medium.com style" article and have it broken into tweets? Am I old or something? I'm not even 30 yet and I cannot wrap my brain around this format or what Twitter is supposed to pr…

the twitter UI lets you type a bunch of tweets in a row. You get used to it

other formats of text start to feel overwrought, unnecessarily verbose, full of meaningless filler

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