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A concept that involves conscious rejection of the basic responsibilities for managing tensions expected of humans in a society. The Degraded State is most clearly exemplified in Internet culture, and particularly Internet gamer culture, where LARPing, trolling, take downs, gotchas, impersonation, doxxing, harassment for sport and lulz, and a thirst for personal and reputational destruction of others are common behaviors aided by asymmetric anonymity and pseudonymity. Those who accept and embrace the Degraded State share the view that life is simply a game that lacks any deep, ultimate meaning.
A concept that involves conscious rejection of the basic responsibilities for managing tensions expected of humans in a society. The Degraded State is most clearly exemplified in Internet culture, and particularly Internet gamer culture, where LARPing, trolling, take downs, gotchas, impersonation, doxxing, harassment for sport and lulz, and a thirst for personal and reputational destruction of others are common behaviors aided by asymmetric anonymity and pseudonymity. Those who accept and embrace the Degraded State share the view that life is simply a game that lacks any deep, ultimate meaning.


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|content=I’m going to start talking publicly more about a concept I formulated a few years ago just for my own internal use: “The Degraded State”.
 
It’s hard to define. But it involves conscious rejection of the basic responsibilities for managing tensions expected of humans in a society.
 
[https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1483130390248312834 One of the owners of the Golden State Warriors says he doesn’t care about Chinese genocide of the Uighurs.]
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|content=For those who know me as slow to anger, that remains true. But, stalking, physical threats, impersonating my business to spread anti-semitism/misogyny, doxxing & taking my wife’s work w/o attribution puts you in a different category. *Especially* if you work at my email provider.
 
The Internet or gamer culture is not an excused absence from being a human being. You don’t get to harass or terrorize families in real life just because you have an ISP.
 
This isn’t a scientific dispute. It’s about being a human and using that life to harass for sport & lulz.
 
This isn’t a relationship between two people. it’s harassment of a family by a jealous server of many people that thinks actively causing fear and loss is funny.
 
I’ll show you. You’ll wonder why I didn’t say more earlier. Wish me luck. More to come.
 
Love to all. And thanks. 🙏
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|content=You hear talk about “cancel culture”. About “hit pieces”. About “bad faith” “journalists” & trolls who, out of sheer malice, destroy others to gain status by smearing targets out of little more reason than envy.
 
But of course that’s always bullshit and sour grapes. Right? #Lulz
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|content=“My phone is in there.”
 
This is how I see internet culture & our degraded current version of life as a game.
 
Jan 6th felt the same: “You don’t get memes bro: a Viking is epic!”
 
All becomes LARPing. A man lies lifeless beside his own hijacked car: “My phone...”
 
On what planet?
 
[https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1375909226439118855 Appalling footage of the carjacking near Nationals Park in Washington D.C. on Tuesday that resulted in the death of Pakistani immigrant & Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar. The teenage girls who police say used a Taser to steal the car face murder charges.]
|timestamp=12:59 AM · Mar 28, 2021
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|content=My issue has been “How can the richest man worried that we have to preserve human consciousness focus on Rockets(?)&Mars, when he has a physics background & the ability to personally lead an attack on getting beyond Einstein’s limits?”
 
Thinking: “So, survival isn’t real either?”
 
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1400620080090730501
 
Makes sense. I guess. Sorta. It’s just super disappointing that we aren’t focused on actually saving ourselves.
 
And slightly bewildering. If not @elonmusk who?? Jim Simons? Yuri Milner? Anyone?
 
There is no one with both the vision & money to organize this.
 
Oh well. Onward... I mean obviously our government and science establishment should be the ones leading this...but that currently makes no sense in their degraded states.
 
The universities could do it. But they are too degraded.
 
Perhaps China is the only capable player left in the game. Sad if so.
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