{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "this is just the natural way of things, a new space opens up, strange and creative things happen for a while, but eventually it...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184769653798/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://rationalists-out-of-context.tumblr.com/post/184769267351/this-is-just-the-natural-way-of-things-a-new\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">rationalists-out-of-context</a>:</p><blockquote><p>this is just the natural way of things, a new space opens up, strange and creative things happen for a while, but eventually it falls into the attractor of drooling idiots getting milked by sociopaths</p></blockquote>\n<p>As a reminder this was one of the big arguments for aristocracy coming out of pre-WWI conservative traditions, that it reserved Culture as a playing field for the strange and creative avant-garde and kept the drooling idiots (and thus their sociopath predators) out</p><p>(This does require a worldview where \u201caristocrats\u201d and \u201csociopaths organizing the world to draw power by feeding on the masses\u201d are conceived as distinct categories)</p><p>((You know what\u2019s a good exploration of that tension? <i>Vampire fiction</i>.)<br/></p>"}