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

All Hail the Firehose of Bullshit

Directly Used:

Moral Panics:

Construction, Interaction with Reality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic

Wesley Yang: The Vertically Integrated Messaging Apparatus

Perpetual, Interaction

The Unity of Oppression and the Turn to Successor Ideology

HWFO: Egregores

Change, Interaction

Memespace Egregores and Google Maps

Peter Limberg/The Stoa: Memetic Tribes

Persistence, interaction

https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb

Breaking the Polarity Spell of the Covidiots and Covidians

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

How to Think about the "Current Thing"