I don’t think this engages with a realistic model of why “p(doom)” was so memetically fit in the first place. I would point to Val’s model as something which is probably closer, specifically for purposes of understanding the memetic fitness of “p(doom)”.
Yes, though perhaps a mildly gearsier frame would be that anxiety (or something like it) is providing a kind of raw fuel for memeticity, and various memes eat up that fuel and redirect it in other ways, including sometimes toward tribalism. Like, the tribalism is more like one kind of engine which can take anxiety-type fuel.
I’m inclined to look at the blunt limitations of bandwidth on this one. The first hurdle is that p(doom) can pass through tweets and shouted conversations in bay area house parties.
I don’t think this engages with a realistic model of why “p(doom)” was so memetically fit in the first place. I would point to Val’s model as something which is probably closer, specifically for purposes of understanding the memetic fitness of “p(doom)”.
Does that mean you think it’s more like “a way for anxiety to manifest” than “a way for tribal impulses to manifest?”
Yes, though perhaps a mildly gearsier frame would be that anxiety (or something like it) is providing a kind of raw fuel for memeticity, and various memes eat up that fuel and redirect it in other ways, including sometimes toward tribalism. Like, the tribalism is more like one kind of engine which can take anxiety-type fuel.
I’m inclined to look at the blunt limitations of bandwidth on this one. The first hurdle is that p(doom) can pass through tweets and shouted conversations in bay area house parties.