When you can’t control the chaos, learn to enjoy it.

Twitter is a collective fire not of heat and plasma but of language and norms consuming the rot of our past mistakes (lockdowns, votes, emissions, etc.).

What a beautiful fire!

It’s like watching prides of lions or packs of wolves clash for territory, like watching a herd of wildebeest stampede into the fog. Human systems - social (twitter), political (elections), economic (recessions) and biological (pandemics) - are wonders of the modern world.

Twitter right now is like a cross-section of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, a battle under no general’s control running its inevitable deterministic course like a Rube Goldberg machine narrated by 240 character rants.

I absolutely love it. When you can’t control the chaos, enjoy it!

Just step back a sec and view twitter as we’d view a mass migration or any other majestic collective phenomenon.

In that flock of starlings are fights and chirps of madness, but isn’t it neat how it moves like an amoeba?

Twitter language morphs over time from topic to topic in this same collective manner. In this flock are cuckoos, trolls from hostile foreign powers, trying to lead us off Lemming’s Leap.