We Need More Content! - by Santi Ruiz - Regress Studies

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I want to show you some examples of an internet phenomenon that I have been unable to unsee. The phenomenon, as I see it, has a few steps: People would like others to be convinced to take up a certain ideology. They believe that if those others saw a certain kind of content, it would make them take up that ideology. They call publicly for someone to create this memetic content. I think this is a wacky way of thinking about beliefs, desires, and social media influences; let me try and explain why. Here are some examples: Here’s a second, another tweet: And here’s a third: The people behind these posts feel they are discussing some of the biggest problems in public life. We don’t produce great works anymore; we’re a godless nation; we don’t have a coherent vision of human flourishing, we don’t inspire kids to become scientists. Presumably, these problems could have all kinds of solutions: political, spiritual, personal, psychological, military, virtue-ethical. But what they call for inst

We Need More Content! Why do we want other people to make memes about things? Santi Ruiz Feb 01, 2024 59 9 13 Share I want to show you some examples of an internet phenomenon that I have been unable to unsee. The phenomenon, as I see it, has a few steps: People would like others to be convinced to take up a certain ideology. They believe that if those others saw a certain kind of content , it would make them take up that ideology. They call publicly for someone to create this memetic content. I think this is a wacky way of thinking about beliefs, desires, and social media influences; let me tr

We Need More Content! - by Santi Ruiz - Regress Studies

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