Do you know what's going on?

[version]

I recently read an older person lamenting the amount of pressure they felt there was online to be an expert on everything from pop culture to geopolitics.

What's funny about this? Why's everyone laughing? What's going on?

 

[version]

i also dont have an interior voice. i don't have an inner eye and i dont hear
sounds and i dont have memories in any meaningful way.

Barely human.

 

[version]

we've lost all our people who knew what was going on,, or thought they did.
droid, padraig, craner.
tbf they could be annoying. sometimes you'd think, o shut up.
but on other occassions you'd think,, theyre more grown up than me.
they're trying to keep on top of things and make nice moral judgements.

Craner?! The nutter who thought the French did 9/11 and Jeremy Clarkson was a member of Source Direct?!

 

[other_life]

so clued up he looked crazy

 

[other_life]

i also dont have an interior voice. i don't have an inner eye and i dont hear
sounds and i dont have memories in any meaningful way.

t. luka ragebait; ignore ✋

 

[version]

Maybe you need a certain arrogance to really believe you know anything.

 

[shiels]

my mate was telling me about her work colleague who doesn't have an interior voice. nothing. no noise. no questions. she reckons there's people who live in a kind of cognitive tranquility, while most people stagger about looking under rocks and getting spooked by noises in the dark wondering what the fuck is going on.

do you have an inner monologue?

tell me how it works

www.dissensus.com

 

[version]

Maybe you need a certain arrogance to really believe you know anything.

None of the types @shiels listed - politicians, columnists, police, priests, people in tech, grumpy old people, taxi drivers, people who have taken too many drugs for too long - strike me as humble.

 

[Mr. Tea]

What's going on?

Shit's fucked, m8.

There. You now know what's going on.

 

[version]

Shit's fucked, m8.

There. You now know what's going on.

How do you know?

 

[Mr. Tea]

How do you know?

Well I mean it just is, isn't it.

 

[version]

Well I mean it just is, isn't it.

Why, what's going on?

 

[version]

I was thinking this reading the back and forth between the US and Israel over whether the US had anything to do with the attack on Iran. They're both obviously lying, but their lies are contradictory. Who knows what's going on. Does it even matter whether we know?

 

[version]

What makes us want to know what's going on in Iran? Perhaps it's an instinctive thing about feeling more secure when you've a handle on your environment, but where exactly 'our environment' is has been muddled by having our heads in a global network while the body remains local. It seems important to know what's going on everywhere simply because we have access to what's going on everywhere.

 

[other_life]

israel fi die this much i know

 

[version]

that's the same thing TS Eliot said drove him to nervous breakdown 100 odd years ago... so he ran off to Margate

Seems almost quaint to be overwhelmed in that way pre-internet.

 

[version]

That review of the other Palantir guy's book I posted in the Thiel thread is astonishing. There's a clip on Twitter linked in the article with someone saying it's the best two minutes you'll see the weekend it was posted and it's just staggeringly stupid. He's like 50 and sounds like a teenage nerd bumbling through an impassioned speech in front of his Warhammer 40k group. I find it hard to believe he has any idea what's going on.

 

[okzharp]

Seems almost quaint to be overwhelmed in that way pre-internet.

yeah exactly, imagine how quaint our little early 21st century web3 concerns will seem in 20 or 100 years...

 

[other_life]

best counter to "what's going on?" is "what are you doing?"

 

[william_kent]