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The article has ommitted the crucial part of the Mikka thesis: that all of the industries it mentions as being in decline; Law, Journalism, Education - are defined as mediating between information and subjects. https://twitter.com/raitogroyper/status/1200411357264433152">https://twitter.com/raitogroy...
As level of actual knowledge transfer conducted by these groups declines, they have to inflate the value with signalling costs – hence you get all this neo-moralistic bullshit.
Education stops being about actual research and output, and starts being about producing a Confucian moral bureaucracy where everyone is an ‘expert’. Journalism stops reporting a semblance of facts and becomes something to be consumed as a moral duty.
Literally every culture war I saw this decade, from GamerGate to AI, was about a declining class trying to impose signalling costs on an energetic, progressive new replacement.
The ideological mirror image of these material changes is that without barriers to information exchange & #39;society& #39; can no longer act as a surrogate Prime Mover, and with it the epistemological basis of the humanities since the 50s is gone.
SJWs and Integralists are alike; their real concern is a defense of the Foucauldian methodological status quo - which is somehow not capable of socially determining the Bad People Online who rather need to be quashed by a Priestly Caste saved from these economic anxieties
The Alt-Right failed imo because it had to rely on alien rhetorics to describe itself like Marxism or Religion and thereby internalised themselves as victims.
Real political compass is Content-Creators vs Signalling-as-Rent. Intelligence vs Intelligence Containment.
Real political compass is Content-Creators vs Signalling-as-Rent. Intelligence vs Intelligence Containment.
I used to bang on about the elites being stewpid not from vanity but because everything I see, which this article summarises neatly for those of you with numerical biases, screams the fact these people are the real downwardly-mobile reactionaries.
