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Adam Greenfield

@pts I am building up to a longer rant about this, and in fact something that may well become a longer piece of writing and/or otherwise definitive of this next part of my life, but competence and capacity and clarity and diligence and strength (*clearly*, I hope, for some specified and carefully defined values of “strength”) are all things it is beyond foolish to cede to the people who hate us and love hate. Will say (probably too) much more shortly.

26 March at 19:37 | Open on social.coop
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Paul Starr
Adam Greenfield
Paul Starr replied to Adam

@adamgreenfield good memes are another virtue we cannot afford to cede, come to think of it

26 March at 19:53 | Open on octodon.social
Chill

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Adam this absolutely encapsulates the way I see things here in Australia. So perhaps this culture is more pervasive?
I'd enjoy reading something "more definitive".

27 March at 7:30 | Open on aus.social
Nicovel0

@adamgreenfield @pts I still think the long tail of empire has to bear the blame for at least some of it. When you can fuck up repeatedly and there is a quarter of the world to make up and suffer your mistakes with essentially no consequences as long as the rich stay rich, you can go a long time running inefficient systems and getting away with it.

27 March at 8:58 | Open on mastodon.social
Adam Greenfield

@Nicovel0 @pts Sure, I’ll buy “at least some of it.” But one of the lower-diligence cultures I’m familiar with, Korea, was colonized rather than the colonizer, so there’s not a 1:1 correlation.

27 March at 9:01 | Open on social.coop
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