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David Woolf's avatar

Ed's rather disjointed ramblings not helped by rambling interlocutor, alas.

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Lev Janashvili's avatar

Yes. The loss of cultural memory is a crisis, but the word 'crisis' seems to be losing its punch.

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John Gillam's avatar

Hi Lev. I agree. I try not to use it too much, however it seems that 'the internet' and its army of content creators (erm, guilty) do seem to have a penchant for crises click-baiting.

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Lev Janashvili's avatar

Indeed. Same here. We do the best we can to upgrade our nomenclature, but there's often no way for language to keep up with our collective acceleration into what I used to call Mindfuckistan until that coinage started to lose its punch too.

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John Gillam's avatar

That verbiage is slightly lesser-spotted amongst the YouTube thumbnail hall of fame, Lev, thanks for the inspiration. Less crisis, more 'mindfuckistan' - I vow to use it as much as I possibly can. I see a new series taking shape: 'Tales from...'.

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Lev Janashvili's avatar

Ha! Love it!

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