Post #1694698

I am not just dunking on the slightly parasitical Marxist kids (I know I'm unfair to them, but it's really uncool to piggyback other people's work while always refusing to do any of your own, and it's a longstanding situation; I'm not by far the only skeptic there). Batting this around with said acquaintance -- who does do things, is involved with unions etc. -- has me thinking about, I don't know. Context starvation? Where the line is in terms of how much context about the world you have where the performance of something is suddenly credible as yes, this is how this works, not the complex, messy, iterative reality of the matter? Like, where is the *threshold* for that: the event horizon where performance gains credibility? It makes sense for those kids because they're always early-20s, so *inexperienced*, and you never see the same ones twice. One suspects very high turnover. But there's clearly a threshold for distinguishing realities from cosplay and this? This seems valuable. #organizing