The reason the content feels stale here - the reason it feels like twitter is dying - is because the era that birthed twitter is ending.

We are past the time of ideas, we are in revolutionary times; times of action.
Cafe culture (“the salons”) developed in late 17th century France as satire towards the ancien regime.

These criticisms, starting underground (and fueled by a transforming political tradition across the channel) eventually blossomed into a full blown discourse on society.
Twitter has been the cafe culture of our time. It’s been the salon where dissident thinkers shared their observations of why the current apparatus is failing.

New concepts & modes of living, defined largely in contrast to modern culture, have been cultivated and nurtured here.
But what more can be said at this point?

The time for incubation is over. We know the elite’s purpose - their propaganda is designed to degrade, diminish, and demoralize us. No more light needs to shined on it, at least here.

What needs to occur is a response in the real world.
This is the revolution that inevitably follows all shifts in consciousness percolating under the surface. The American & French Revolutions followed the enlightenment for a reason.

The salon is no longer a place to conceptualize or critique, but to strategize, and enact plans.
It's one thing to take pride in "opting out" of the regime when its dominant - to be the guy who lifts, picks up girls, makes money online when most are fat, romantically challenged, stuck in the grind.

But now the system is collapsing.

What are you doing to create the new one?
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