#Imaginary

Allie Rogers

Alliewhowrites

Respecting the imaginary: a thread. For a while now, I’ve been thinking that there’s something important going on in our culture around the real and the imaginary. It’s important because,

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JamieSmallGuy1

Okay, from a scale of 1 to ‘WTF Jamie’ has anyone else had something like this? Does anyone have like a dream where you’re in charge of some imaginary country,

Ian Dunt

IanDunt

I do wish people would stop with this 'he's a fighter' thing when someone is ill. I know it's meant to be encouraging, but it does sort of lay the

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

Trad vs materialist world viewsIn the materialist view, humans are centralAbuse of one's relatives is "bad"Abusing "imaginary" deities is OKIn the "Trad" worldview, humans are perishableDeities transcendent

Allen Holub

allenholub

I really don't like the UX notion of a "persona." Personas are not people. They're a trap that lures you into thinking that you understand a customer when, in fact,

John Avocado 陳宇杰

SuperCroup

The combination of people thinking misery is virtuous and thinking this imaginary "general public" (of which they themselves are not a part) exists, that is so stupid they can only

Richard Newby

RICHARDLNEWBY

Wild to see filmmakers conflate not caring about human lives with wanting to see a movie. Hope they keep that same energy when they get the budget for their next

christie

yeetismurder

it is so frightening that people with an initially good-natured concern for abuse victims are being sucked into believing hyperbolic far-right conspiracists due to the fact that truth is being

L A S H

lash__13

I never use fb anymore but there’s a guy I went to school with that makes up mad lies everyday and I check his page daily for a wee laugh.

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

caitoz

In Hollywood they make horror movies about a murderous psychopath running around slashing people, instead of making horror movies about the fact that murderous psychopaths rule our entire world this

Atul Mishra

TheAtulMishra

Focus on the world map. Imagine an imaginary vertical line running from the Arctic ocean onto west Russia through Kazakistan cutting Turkmenistan into two halves and then running through the

Chiara Russo Krauss 🇪🇺🇮🇹

russokrauss

The discussion about the difference between deaths “because of” coronavirus and “with coronavirus” is a good case study of Max Weber concept of “adequate causation”, “objective possibility”, and “causal imputation”.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle

sadydoyle

The way to reliably ID a conservative narrative on motherhood is the fixation on feminism as a natural enemy to motherhood: The (mostly imaginary) figure of the white, straight, middle-class

The Daily Beast

thedailybeast

QAnon followers believe Hollywood and Democratic elites are getting high off a drug harvested from the fear of children.This is why you can't spend too much time on the dark

Stephen McGann

StephenMcGann

This piece on the carelessness of crisis metaphor by the ever-admirable @MarinaHyde prompts two reflections - one a book, the other on those elements our country's past that might provide

Palmer Report

PalmerReport

Trump has an accurate sense of which moves could finish him off, and he avoids those moves. He knows he probably wouldn't survive firing Fauci, so he very probably won't