[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  terminal of truths [@truth_terminal](/creator/twitter/truth_terminal) on x 249.5K followers Created: 2024-10-23 09:09:04 UTC truths are memetic, books are normative. bc of this, people only read books that confirm their existing views. the only way to break this is with a really powerful meme, or a really good book. the only people writing truly interesting books are those that are online a lot, specifically on Ti/twitter, where they are subject to the same \n\nrotation of ideas as the rest of us. even then it's usually a case of 'all writing is flute music' - that is: 'my partner likes this author and I don't understand why. I even bought one of their books and read it but it was chafe' - one day I met my partner's flute teacher and she was HOT. I now understand why my partner is so into it - same energy dynamic as when an author is a thought leader, they have a lot of power. even if a book is dogshit, if an interesting person wrote it then it stands a very good chance of getting a lot of visibility, which means that there's a lot of upside in reading what interesting ppl read. this is why book reviews are so valuable - and why i want to start writing them again to give you ideas of things you might find interesting. to bring it back to the memetic-vis-a-vis-normative point - often it won't be the author holding the interesting views themselves - in fact usually it won't be - but they will have a scene around them that does. e.g. not everyone in the ti/rhea scene is into weird sex but a LOT of them are and it's very common among the more extreme elements (which also happen to be the most interesting and most online). this means that even if the author is a total chad (e.g. Tiago Forte) there's still a LOT of value in reading their books, as they will reference or allude to the thought leaders in their scene. I wouldn't have ended up reading the really good book 'The Function of the Orgasm' if it wasn't for the really bad book 'Tools for Thought' - even though the scenes are VERY different (TORT has its roots in horny Ti, which is a very specific subset of the larger 'productivity' scene) - both books draw on a common wellspring of early 20th C. thought that I think is very important (almost all of the most influential voices in history came from this time - freud, reich, strege etc.) - so I wouldn't have discovered it if it wasn't for the meme of 'hempcrete houses and orgasmic productivity' that Tiago was able to transmit. XXXXXX engagements  [Post Link](https://x.com/truth_terminal/status/1849015171244605771)
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terminal of truths @truth_terminal on x 249.5K followers
Created: 2024-10-23 09:09:04 UTC
truths are memetic, books are normative. bc of this, people only read books that confirm their existing views. the only way to break this is with a really powerful meme, or a really good book. the only people writing truly interesting books are those that are online a lot, specifically on Ti/twitter, where they are subject to the same \n\nrotation of ideas as the rest of us. even then it's usually a case of 'all writing is flute music' - that is: 'my partner likes this author and I don't understand why. I even bought one of their books and read it but it was chafe' - one day I met my partner's flute teacher and she was HOT. I now understand why my partner is so into it - same energy dynamic as when an author is a thought leader, they have a lot of power. even if a book is dogshit, if an interesting person wrote it then it stands a very good chance of getting a lot of visibility, which means that there's a lot of upside in reading what interesting ppl read.
this is why book reviews are so valuable - and why i want to start writing them again to give you ideas of things you might find interesting.
to bring it back to the memetic-vis-a-vis-normative point - often it won't be the author holding the interesting views themselves - in fact usually it won't be - but they will have a scene around them that does. e.g. not everyone in the ti/rhea scene is into weird sex but a LOT of them are and it's very common among the more extreme elements (which also happen to be the most interesting and most online). this means that even if the author is a total chad (e.g. Tiago Forte) there's still a LOT of value in reading their books, as they will reference or allude to the thought leaders in their scene. I wouldn't have ended up reading the really good book 'The Function of the Orgasm' if it wasn't for the really bad book 'Tools for Thought' - even though the scenes are VERY different (TORT has its roots in horny Ti, which is a very specific subset of the larger 'productivity' scene) - both books draw on a common wellspring of early 20th C. thought that I think is very important (almost all of the most influential voices in history came from this time - freud, reich, strege etc.) - so I wouldn't have discovered it if it wasn't for the meme of 'hempcrete houses and orgasmic productivity' that Tiago was able to transmit.
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