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Ironic as hell to be posting this on X, but it bears repeating:
Short form is incredibly destructive.
I’ve been watching hour+ long podcast episodes between intelligent people during my commute, and I’ve often wanted to pull over and take notes.
It’s nourishing, enriching.
Stephen Ferrin 🌊⚓️ retweeted
Trump to Joe Rogan: Windmills are killing the whales, it’s horrible.
The left: Trump is a liar, windmills wouldn’t do that. We need the windmills for cLiMaTe ChAnGe
The truth. Trump was 100% correct 👇
Stephen Ferrin 🌊⚓️ retweeted
Unpopular opinion-
Trump voters, now is the time to walk the walk. This is the unity party- if you want to heal this country you need to show real love and compassion to liberals and democrats.
You need to talk to them, listen to them- prove to them that what the media said about Trump was lies- what they said about Trump supporters was lies. You can’t mock them for calling you garbage and then act like garbage because you won.
Their greatest success in Trump’s first term was creating TDS- it is up to every Trump supporter to live out the counter narrative to their lies.
Making America great again is inseparable from dismantling the divisive psyop that Trump supporters are mean, uninformed, Nazis.
Be the bigger person, build the bridge and welcome someone across.
Otherwise four years from now America is even more divided and even more in danger.
No excuses. 🇺🇸
Long form is very Lindy that way.
The longer the form, the bigger the mental model.
Books will never die unless the model maker’s capacity shrivels to the teaspoon of tabloids.
When constant, internal, mental trepidation is the order of the day, a product of your lizard brain (fight, flight, freeze) being hijacked by social media systems flooding your systems with threats that feel real, but are not actual threats?
By contrast, my X feed is atrocious.
Before you start explaining why, I already know. I have engaged precious little with any content over the last year, ergo the algorithm pipeline leans toward unfiltered sewage. Once I’m curating again that should clear up.
“Context is everything”
I find myself repeating this a lot these days, at work and at home.
Neurobiologically, we aren’t equipped to deal (healthily) with the onslaught of sound bites, tweets, headlines, hot takes, engagement bait, outrage, and headlines that bleed.
By far the best analysis of this bizarre spectacle.
So I looked into this. I thought maybe I should feel sorry for the woman, athletes can choke, and maybe it was cruel for people to be making fun of her. Alternatively, I thought it may be possible she was led up the garden path, told she was good break dancer when she wasn’t, and I can’t imagine anything more humiliating than realising you are in fact not a talented athlete on the world stage.
Turns out Rachael Gunn here has a PhD in cultural studies, with a speciality in the gender politics of movement and breakdance. She has written about how including break dance in the Olympics changes it from a practice within an alternative subculture, to a hegemonic one that incorporates the dance into what she sees as Australia’s settler colonialist project. I am 100% certain what she is doing here, in wearing the Australia kit even, is trying to make some subversive point she can later write journal articles about.
This whole episode is demonstrative of the supreme selfishness of woke identity politics studies. Her little stunt diminishes Australia on the world stage. Hundreds of Australian athletes who will have dedicated their entire lives to athletic excellence will be forgotten, because Rachael wanted to bulk up her ResearchGate profile. Rather than their medals and efforts, this is what Australia will be remembered for.
Not to mention the disastrous effect this will have on break dancing as a sport. Its position in the Olympics is not secure, and surely won’t be taken seriously after this. Good job Rachael, you really showed those chauvinist nationalists, hundreds of women and girls will not get their Olympic opportunity now.
Rachael represents so much of what is totally lecherous about cultural studies academics. Pick a subject area that will be under-studied in your context, so you can rise through the ranks quickly (how many break dancing academics will there be in Australia?), and wreak absolute havoc in lives of the people you want to study. There is no limit to the sheer disrespect they will dole out, purely for self-advancement.
