I am somewhat amused that my culture-war dichotomies post has taken off due to people treating it like a personality quiz where you categorize yourself along each axis…
I think it was @worldoptimization who said “Never underestimate the memetic fitness of an opportunity to categorize oneself”. I’m starting to wonder if there’s a carcinisation-like effect there, too.
Luckily I’m one of those people who doesn’t fall for such tricks. Us low-Barnum types should probably stick together to avoid memetic contagion.
It’s an opportunity to do very condensed self-signaling with low effort and an already existing context for interpreting them. Also the dichotomy idea was interpreted as sufficiently sarcastic/non-serious that turning it into shitposting was the Officially Mandatory™ response. Your memetic game was good, even if it was accidental.
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