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~detritus

Aren't decades arbitrary delimiters of spans of time, which itself is dubiously driven by individuality-rooted subjectivity?

That really isn't relevant. It's still a hell of a decade.

Is there something new about ignorance staging contests to display the most profound ignorance fostering immunity to chaos?

Huh? I wasn't really talking about any sort of immunity, really.

Let's not forget that more opinions are more easily available than ever, and that most people are impossibly imbecilic. I can't see taking anything from the "news" media or common whiners seriously. I've no idea what's actually going on, and I doubt that you do either. We both take in claims (generally referred to as "facts"..), and the momentum of our ongoing faith in what constitutes reality makes some of it seemingly real.

Maybe the way I spoke about all this sounded as if I consider any of this "real". Of course, you make a good point, while I am not one to be too concerned about what's "real" and what isn't, anything that shows on the news is less real than anything else I could think of. That doesn't mean people won't die, or that prices won't go through the roof.... again.

Anyway, don't worry, I know as well as any (better than most people, apparently!) it's all nothing but _narratives_, I just happen to entertain myself with one of the narrative threads (one that I have weaved for myself from the somewhat arbitrary sources that I've cared to pay attention to). My whole post is an elaboration on this role-playing game that the newscasters would want us to participate in. [Edit] After all, there's no real difference between the entertainment industry I spoke of and the news industry we're addressing here. They are the exact same thing, actually.

I loved it. You've got English by the balls. And I'm not talking surgically appended balls. I talkin'/typin' the genuine y-chromosome issue.

Thank you? I am not sure whether this is actual praise or sarcasm. I'm inclined to think the latter....

Anyway I expected more inflamated responses, I a glad I have people like inq not taking any of this seriously, as none of it should. I just hope I didn't offend some susceptibilities here, it's probably very hard to be standing inside the tower as it falls. It is amusing to see from the outside (even if I'm in the impact zone).

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Whatever narrative seemingly works best! ;-)

And the moment, I'm mildly fascinated with how we sometimes speak of getting on *top* of the news, and that a *top* is a toy that spins, creating a weak - yet undeniable - association between news and spin. I can become downright "linguistics conspiracist" about non-standard connections between words at times....