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"The highly emotive language of many of these reviews and the wide and gleeful sharing of them are further manifestations of our reactivity in the current environment. People are so caught up in the fraught interpersonal ideological tensions of our discursive climate that they are increasingly searching for catharsis over analysis. They desire things that will relieve the psychological tensions that they feel so keenly. Consequently, they produce or pounce upon anything that will enable them to drive out, at least in rhetorical effigy, the persons or parties by whom they feel threatened. There is something in their system and they need to purge it out. [...]

They probably desire peace, but believe that is to be found through driving out the other side, whatever that side might be. All of their pent-up tension cries out for catharsis, which is pursued through rhetorical attacks upon opponents, lots of sarcasm, mockery, and dismissive humour, communal outrage, and other such means. [...]

Scott Alexander remarks upon the dynamics of tribalism, observing that ‘outgroups’ are created by ‘proximity plus small differences.’ One of the problems with social media is that it radically increases our proximity to each other, and our sense of being threatened by each other and the differences that we have from each other: social media intensifies our exposure to outgroups. The result is a ratcheting up of all our tensions and an increasing preoccupation with fighting against other people. As our awareness of and exposure to the outgroup increases, we will grow increasingly reactive and incapable of reasonable discourse."

(det var det nye og sandsynligvis korrekte jeg lærte af den artikel)

https://alastairadversaria.com/2018/04/06/discourse-in-the-culture-wars-and-the-hunger-for-catharsis/

Discourse in the Culture Wars and the Hunger for Catharsis

This is just the fucking worst. Imagine a self-help book written by the Darth Maul of tenured campus bad boys, an act of trahison des clercs so severe that it calls into question the entire five-th?

"I confess that I’m not only not a thing enthusiast, but have long found people clapping for things they recognize, whether it be the Stan Lee cameo or almost the entirety of Game Night, thoroughly infuriating, if not the symptom of a sick society. It’s a credit to Spielberg that his production design and action compositions are dazzling enough for me to enjoy action scenes designed largely to serve the thing recognizers, even in the context of a story that’s all empty calories."

Som altid en strålende anmeldelse

https://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/ready-player-one-review-steven-spielberg/2/ ⟲

?Ready Player One? Is Visually Dazzling But Hollow Tribute To Fandom

Steven Spielberg?s ?Ready Player One? is so dazzling that it nearly transcends its asinine source material, but doesn?t quite get there.

https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/980987942712827915 ⟲

John Fugelsang on Twitter

?at the jefferson memorial.?

Dagens bedste og længste boganmeldelse. CS Lewis og JB Peterson som konkurrerende profeter

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/26/book-review-twelve-rules-for-life/

Book Review: Twelve Rules For Life

I. I got Jordan Peterson?s Twelve Rules For Life for the same reason as the other 210,000 people: to make fun of the lobster thing. Or if not the lobster thing, then the neo-Marxism thing, or?

"Roughly a week before the EU referendum, Vote Leave inexplicably donated £625,000 to a young fashion design student named Darren Grimes, the founder of a small, unofficial Brexit campaign called BeLeave. According to a BuzzFeed investigation, Grimes immediately gave a “substantial amount” of the cash he received from Vote Leave to AIQ. Vote Leave also donated £100,000 to another Leave campaign called Veterans for Britain, which, according to The Guardian, then paid AIQ precisely that amount."

Der er gang i kode- og pengekarrussellerne.

https://gizmodo.com/aggregateiq-created-cambridge-analyticas-election-softw-1824026565

AggregateIQ Created Cambridge Analytica's Election Software, and Here?s the Proof

A little-known Canadian data firm ensnared by an international investigation into alleged wrongdoing during the Brexit campaign created an election software platform marketed by Cambridge Analytica, according to a batch of internal files obtained exclusively by...

Her er faktisk et læs ret gode film til påsken og evigt eje.

http://internetforbrugeren.dk/se

Originally shared by Malthe Høj-Sunesen

Person fra LøkkeFonden: "Kan statsministeren støtte en af vores donorer?"

Statsministeriets assistenter: "Det undersøger vi"

Statsministeren tropper op som efterspurgt og præsenteres som statsminister.

Der er heeeeeeelt sikkert forskel på politikeren Lars Løkke Rasmussen og privatpersonen Lars Løkke Rasmussen, uden nogen form for sammenfald. Og uanset hvad har den ene af de to tidligere meldt ud, at man er minister 24 timer i døgnet ...

https://www.bt.dk/politik/loekke-i-ny-dobbeltrolle-erhvervsfond-gav-millionbeloeb-statsministeren-opfyldte ⟲

Løkke i ny dobbeltrolle: Erhvervsfond gav millionbeløb - statsministeren opfyldte dens ønske

Læs mere her.

Hvem skal vi sende ind i zonen?

Tre tyndhårede, midaldrende mænd i grimt tøj?

Eller fire kvindelige fotomodeller i 30'erne?

Fed, spoiler-fri anmeldelse af en ok film (der er ankommet til Netflix).

http://www.theatreofnoise.com/2018/03/annihilation-stalker-for-dummies.html

Annihilation: Stalker for dummies

Review of Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland, 2018) in the form of an interrogation. CAN YOU DESCRIBE ITS FORM? No, not really. I mean, i...

Du er mere end velkommen til at stille spørgsmål vedrørende

http://internetforbrugeren.dk/jeg-har-laest-johans-schluters-erindringer-sporg-mig-om-alt ⟲

Jeg har læst Johan Schlüters erindringer - spørg mig om alt!

Erindringsbogen gør det ikke videre godt, men du er måske nysgerrig. Spørg løs og jeg svarer.