Comment by gsf_emergency_6

15 days ago

There is class mobility: anyone can be a hipster-- in 2001

Theses days, it's about migrating to those basements of the "interwebs" where the gen alpha trolls hang out.. little red book?

https://archive.ph/2026.01.24-032347/https://aletteraday.sub...

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aebtebeten  15 days ago

hmmm: an arbitrary finite automaton can be decomposed into a collection of edges; can we decompose a reasonable philosophy into a collection of memes/greentexts/whatever the kids are doing these days?

(for that matter, I just assume the modal HN'er is ~13 now, but maybe that's an artifact of how the front page dynamic goldfishes the conversation?)

EDIT: little red book or little red pill? https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/redpill-op

> I'd seen posters from the now fairly infamous 4chan /pol/, or Politics, board raiding other parts of the website in character as minorities or leftists before.

How about centres troll the extremes, as in https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GgTm194WIAEqak3?format=jpg&name=... ? (the Adams quote implies, whether the horseshoe be real or artificial, you'd largely be trolling the same people anyway?)

  • gsf_emergency_6  14 days ago

    Lyingflat was a red herring then?

    Seems like the idea that your (our?) concept of bigotry could be profoundly misguided could be the real unspeakable..

    Have you read Lawrence of Arabia recently?

    The dividing line maybe: I see --(well, viscerally) whom you may label-- bigots as adults (who may or may not require medical intervention); and you-- as children? To help you out on the trolling, I'm usually triggered by upper-middle class takes on Christ, like this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541901

    :)

    That is not even schizo.. (aha, PH's concept of "kidult" "resonates" strongly with me)

    Meyer-Hofstede again..? Add Tocqueville, even though he couldn't travel to all the allies.

    This is I make effort to speak nicely to alephnerd, am glad the mods(?) unflagged me!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733802

    (I'm also excited by Carneyism btw)

    • aebtebeten  14 days ago

      LoA, I'm very ashamed to say, is in the category of: seen the inflight movie, but not even read "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" — should I remedy this sin of omission?

      Jack and Leopold may well be centrist; I know all the thinkbois mostly by reputation, not as primary sources! (Indeed, I'm pretty sure I know who Jack must be, despite having bailed on his platform in its first year, but Leopold doesn't even ring a bell, unless he goes by a different handle?)

      Here's my attempt to tl;dr my concept:

      Soft bigotry: I know better than my neighbour how to live, so I deserve all sorts of good things. (Koerner notes that the way to spot social darwinists is that they're incessantly wringing their hands that the "unfit" are —somehow— outreproducing the "fit")

      Hard bigotry: I know better than my neighbour how to live, so they deserve all sorts of bad things. ("patriots" get to kill "lunatics" in the street)

      Now, I do believe some people do in fact know better than others how to live (unsurprisingly, I place myself among the former :-); I just also believe example works better than extortion as a means of proselytisation. (fishers of men should refrain from dynamiting the lake?)

      Does the "kidult" have a large coupling constant with "growing old is obligatory; growing up is optional"?

      Which M-H scales?

      I'm surprised not to have run across alephnerd recently wrt Carneyism ["loz im gayn"? :)]; they seemed very great-game-adjacent, earlier...

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