I hate it when these players (i.e. not ordinary voter/actor types who undergo the slow and organic process of human evolution where your mind changes and starts to genuinely feel more enlightened or civilized as opposed to these cynical and disgraceful scrambles) turn just when they realize their rears are also on the line and then come and throw their weight around with people who never backed or exploited any shady shit and bore the brunt of it and then want to hog and corrupt other spaces.
I saw it put in a way I really liked in an article about Peter Putnam who I really hope is not a Comrade Ogilvy made up by net destroying types filling the net with 3-Body alien and 1984 style bs. I have very recently become slightly warier of the net. Not very but..lots of these creeps who use deception or Facebook emotion contagion style experimentation and with ai and algorithms as I can now see giving the net a weird schizophrenic feel (apophenia, delusions of references ..engineered coincidences due to all this trash ai talking to other ai..those things are detestable…they have this thing in Guildea like mindless persistence..the companies that polluted spaces beyond a threshold that cannot be considered the web should face criminal penalties):
It’s easy to say why someone is wrong, Putnam said. The hard part is figuring out why they’re right. And everyone is right. Everyone has some central insight, hard won by the consistency-making mechanism of the brain, built of past experiences, cast as motor predictions, a pattern that repeats, sustains itself in the chaos. Our job is to pan for it like gold, sift it into our own nervous systems, reconcile the resulting contradiction, become something new.
https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035
That really struck me and stayed with me from the time I read it a few months ago, though now it seems from another lifetime.
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