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Cake day: September 6th, 2024

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  • In other words.

    You can stuff their heads with memes and talking-points all day, get them shouting the party slogans in chorus.

    But you can’t give them the initiative to actually do something.

    (Or to think for themselves for that matter. It rather contradicts the whole stuffed-head thing)







  • Excellent. An opportunity to elaborate my thingy.

    By impress I mean that the thing looks big. People are impressed by big strong stuff.

    Stuff that has big value is worth a lot of money. Thus money is based on people being impressed.

    For good and ill, one’s self-worth is generally based on how much attention you get and how much nice things people say about you. Thus self-worth is based on people being impressed.

    Law is based on impressive arguments, impressive authorities, impressive force, impressive majorities.

    Models of reality are likewise. Arguments, axioms, authorities, experiments, observations.Somebody is impressed and the hypothesis gets promoted to theory or whatever.

    That’s where I’m going with that. People are being impressed. Majorities are getting impressed. Impressive people are being impressed.