Corey deVos
coreydevos.bsky.social
Corey deVos
@coreydevos.bsky.social
And that’s why I think Trump, like the Hawk Tuah girl, could only ascend in a deeply postmodern environment such as this :-)

What do you think?
February 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This is what happens when stages of development create artifacts such as social media, which then becomes a key operating system for civilization. Everyone is now participating in the postmodern age, even the ones who are not themselves capable of generating or understanding postmodern thoughts.
February 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
We used to know that things like Twitter were basically a circus-mirror reflection of reality, but at some point I think we stared too long into that mirror, and fell through the looking glass.
February 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
And without a new kind of media literacy to help us see through this stuff, it’s like having a trillion stars in the sky, allowing you to constellate them however you like in order to sell whatever mythology you want to sell.
February 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Social media has become a Warholian nightmare where everyone’s “15 minutes of fame” are stretched to infinity and become the basis of a new set of 21st-century immortality projects.
February 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
It has created a Dunning-Kruger wasteland — a pathologically decentralized, personality-driven info ecosystem where the volume of your expression is more important than the quality of your expression. And think the right has done a better job of weaponizing this than the left.
February 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It allows information to flow around the community of the adequate, rather than through it, blurring the lines between fact, fiction, and socially-engineered narratives, all of which now slide frictionlessly across our screens and into our awareness.
February 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is essentially because our information flow has become 100% postmodernized — social media platforms have flattened and relativized our perspectives, fragmented our shared reality, and collapsed growth hierarchies while being weaponized by dominator hierarchies.
February 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I think Trump’s viability as a politician is itself the product of the postmodern condition that almost 100% of us are now subject to, regardless of our own personal developmental capacities.
February 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Hey Phil! I’ve mentioned it a few times in various discussions, but the basic idea is that postmodernism isn’t only a product of a particular vertical stage, it is also a horizontal culture that can be participated in by anyone, from any stage.
February 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Oh wow, I’d love to learn how/why this video had such a big impact on you, if you feel like sharing!
December 19, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 8:13 PM
7/ In many ways, the fragmentation of culture, identity, sense-making, and meaning is the defining crisis of our time. It’s the water we’re swimming in. Integral offers the antidote—a way to integrate our fractured world and rebuild shared understanding and common ground.
November 25, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 8:11 PM
2/ These algorithms don’t care about truth or coherence—they care about clicks. As a result, we’ve lost a shared sense of reality. Polarization thrives. Blind men argue. No one is seeing the whole elephant. No one is putting the pieces together.

But what if we could?
November 25, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Between this, the recent Underworld album (Strawberry Hotel), and Metallica’s 72 Seasons, some of my favorite albums these days are being made by the elderly 🤣
November 14, 2024 at 11:16 PM
That's awesome Jeremy, congratulations!
November 14, 2024 at 7:12 PM