James Tindall
This post from @pluralistic
is honestly up there with his concept of enshitification in the degree to which it explains so much of the shitshow.
It implies a compelling argument against great inequity. Namely that great wealth creates a bubble of affordance that insulates the rich from discerning the immediate consequences of incorrect or damaging notions or actions so delaying recognition of errors and the need to alter course.
Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶
@atomless @pluralistic
It's related to but a compounding factor that rich people tend to be surrounded by "yes people" which atrophies their cognitive abilities, particularly their ability to realise when they are or have been wrong.
e.g. https://www.oveo.org/fichiers/power-changes-how-the-brain-responds-to-others.pdf
James Tindall
@pluralistic @a_cubed @Axomamma @MattMerk
Thinking some more about the bubbles of delusion that envelope concentrations of capital and the attraction force they exert upon those without (capital). A significant factor here, especially in an attention economy and society of control whose labidinal flows are directed by the Advertising Industrial Complex, is concentrations of capital also have the power to distort the infosphere by overwhelming sense (of their failures) with a mirage of success.
James Tindall
@pluralistic @a_cubed @Axomamma @MattMerk
Enshitification, the Reverse Centaur, Accountability Sinks (or perhaps Impunity Ware), these concepts are extremely helpful. Feels like a quite coherent picture of 21st-century capital and its machinations is coming into view.
Just noticed the #treasure-what-you-measure anchor in the url which lead me to this old post I'd not seen before which is also excellent 😙🤌 : https://boingboing.net/2019/06/26/breaking-goodharts-law.html
James Tindall
@pluralistic @a_cubed @Axomamma @MattMerk
Case in point, in fact hard to imagine a more perfect example of a bubble of delusion arising through extreme concentration of capital that whilst in denial of its internal failures then operates to present a mirage of success.
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