{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Dude come on, you had A Revelation while manic that urned our to not be all that revelatory. That\u2019s fine, god knows it\u2019s...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/187437232803/", "html": "
Anonymous asked: Dude come on, you had A Revelation while manic that urned our to not be all that revelatory. That\u2019s fine, god knows it\u2019s happened to me, but you can\u2019t double down and be like \u201cactually this WAS clever/radical enough to merit 2 months of buildup, you guys just don\u2019t get it.\u201d If I discovered it at age 12 bored reading paperbacks at my grandma\u2019s house it\u2019s not an infohazard
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Okay this is a good critique

And it\u2019s true that like, the vision of The Infohazard Post came in a manic period and part of why I was putting off delivering it was I wasn\u2019t in the right state, and in the end you can tell from the staccato declarations and use of bullet-point format to tell I had to drink my inhibition down and force it.

Which means I didn\u2019t intend 2 months of buildup, I said something in a high period that sparked a response that I kept stringing along in hopes of delivering and then cut bait cause it was time

But there\u2019s nothing about it incorrect. And it\u2019s not just \u201cI am aware of this\u201d, if you wanna talk paperbacks look back and see how often I reference Flowers in the Attic. It\u2019s the specific needs of this specific culture war, the specific way it\u2019s shaped resistant to challenge in a victim-first feeling-first idiom, and the way it offers to return us to not just a 90s but a 70s equilibrium.

Like, John Norman\u2019s been writing Gor books this whole time but that fact didn\u2019t matter, Gor just mattered because that specific moment mattered, and I\u2019m saying you can feel another one coming on

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