Firehose of Bullshit Part 1.5: The Extended Firehose Universe
Collecting My Thoughts By Collecting Others’ Thoughts
This is a reference list for the next Monday article, “Firehose of Bullshit 2 - A New Social Action: How Firehoses Form, Split, Merge, Clash, and Die”. It lists the resources I’ve drawn ideas from and others which I’ve read or watched but have not directly incorporated, along with tags describing what insights they provide. Go wild, everyone!
Firehose Part 1:
Construction, Self-Perpetuation
Directly Used:
Moral Panics:
Construction, Interaction with Reality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic
Wesley Yang: The Vertically Integrated Messaging Apparatus
Perpetual, Interaction
HWFO: Egregores
Change, Interaction
Peter Limberg/The Stoa: Memetic Tribes
Persistence, interaction
https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb
Rene Girard: Mimesis
Construction, Destruction
Ideas drawn from Luke Burgis’ book, Wanting, and Peter Thiel’s book, Zero to One.
Patrick Ryan, HWFO, Jordan Hall, John Robb discussion
Read, Unused:
Paul VanderKlay’s Review of the previous video
Patrick Ryan - Human Weather:
The dark stoa:
I support the current thing / the opposite of the current thing
Report on Anastasia Kotvitska, wife of Ukrainan politician who smuggled 24 million dollars cash out of Ukraine about a week ago.