@pratik Ahhh. :-) Well, there’s a lot to unpack, right? My reaction might seem a bit knee-jerk but I reject a lot of popular 'concepts' on their face. "Fake news" is another terribly corrupting concept. It’s like "pre-approved" only so so much worse. We’re soaking in it.

@pratik @jasonekratz How do you 'cancel' Trump, for example. Or too many F-15’s? It's problem solving busy work because real life is not a vending machine.

@pratik @jasonekratz I don’t disagree, I just think you don’t take it far enough. "Cancelling" a Senator who also happened to be a comedian didn’t hold him to account. It let a bunch of very anxious folks agree with each other a lot and at length about how good their ethics are. It was the worst sort of moral posing.

@jasonekratz I don’t think it's that simple. Telling a comedian that turns out to also be a rapist that they can’t make money telling jokes anymore isn’t holding them to account. It's being fired from a job, making their bank account also their moral ethical account. It is deeply corrosive.

@pratik I don’t think that is enough. To me it seems more a social phenomena across political perspectives, so some see righteous retribution while others see hate contagion. And since 'culture' is nary a monolith, 'cancelling' often serves the function of 'certification' for the opposition.

@odd if you can figure out a way to do it without all of that protective jelly, well, my tailor would be grateful is all...

@baldur Perhaps remember what the popular ethnographer and social critic G. Carlin once observed: "Consider how stupid the average person is, then consider half the population is stupider than that."

@jwcph obv.ly some discrepancies between 'value' and 'money', eh? 😉

@pimoore uninvited side comment - maybe swimming? easy on the knees...

@chiasm wowsers! cool.