The New Transparency

[Clinamenic]

Posted this GIF before but its a good one

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robot (n.)
1923, from English translation of 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots"), by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "forced worker," from robota "forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery," from robotiti "to work, drudge," from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude," from rabu "slave," from Old Slavic *orbu-, from PIE *orbh- "pass from one status to another" (see orphan).

 

[Clinamenic]

Only Leto's character in that film is an unfettered, superhuman zealot, rather than the sort of vocational public executive I have in mind.

 

[Clinamenic]

Imagine a company being financially incentivized to hold its executives to holistic transparency standards regarding personal expenditures. It would seem to rule out the sort of normal life that privacy affords, hence why I consider it vocational, in a manner not unlike how I think public service should be vocational.

 

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You are our Hollywood attache.

 

[Clinamenic]

Truly a child of that culture.

 

[version]

Another form of "transparency" that seems particularly prevalent atm is people psychoanalysing each other. There's a constant searching for subtext and therapy and therapeutic terms are simultaneously praised and used as weaponry, e.g. ironically asking people who hurt them when they dare voice a negative opinion or telling people they need to see a shrink.

 

[luka]

i quite like that though i think its hilarious

 

[version]

Seek help.

 

[Clinamenic]

A similar cultural symptom here is the implicit competition of who can have the most complex complex.

 

[Clinamenic]

Measured in sheer undiagnosability. Confounding the very discourse of psychiatry.

 

[version]

'One of the (many) downsides of therapy culture's insistence on continued internal subjective monitoring is the way that we are enjoined to forget that most of the time, nothing particularly interesting is going on.'

'This relates to what I think of as the amateur “software tester” or proofreader mentality among millennials and Gen Z. The sense that, in absence of any other purpose, their job is to perpetually scan things for features that could potentially be problematic.

The result is the endless production of “problems” that would not have been problems if people weren’t seeking them out and an odd stasis or paralysis that then sets in because absolutely everything now looks like a potential source of problem.'

 

[Clinamenic]

Insightful. Bubbleshooters.

 

[luka]

me and you were talking about that in terms of obsessively intergatting yourself for signs of racism werent we?

 

[william_kent]

Insightful. Bubbleshooters.

orthogonal to the conversation but this reminds me of when I was showing a CEO that the spam filtering system that he wanted to buy did not work when an email I sent with the subject "spunk bubbles" arrived in his inbox

 

[version]

Lindsay Ellis doing a vid on whether or not Loki (Marvel) is a narcissist feels very much like a marker of where culture is atm.

 

[Murphy]

Academia got there ages ago

 

[william_kent]

a friend pointed out that academia had gone down a strange route when he spat out his tea and exclaimed "there is an international conference on fisting!"

 

[Murphy]

Acute/chronic stress is real, appropriation of frameworks misapplied too doesn’t help

Weird times, fisting research and lectures should definitely be ring-fenced for funding

 

[Leo]

Another form of "transparency" that seems particularly prevalent atm is people psychoanalysing each other. There's a constant searching for subtext and therapy and therapeutic terms are simultaneously praised and used as weaponry, e.g. ironically asking people who hurt them when they dare voice a negative opinion or telling people they need to see a shrink.

Sounds like a variation on being a concern troll.

 

[version]

This sort of thing completely eliminates any sense of mystery about the world and suffocates the imagination. Everything has to be pulled apart and diagnosed, sanitised and packaged in horrible, antiseptic language.