Kristaliana
@kristaliana.bsky.social
Co-founder of Terazoa
Presenting Political Metamodernism as a new way forward for American politics.
Seattle
https://beacons.ai/terazoa
Presenting Political Metamodernism as a new way forward for American politics.
Seattle
https://beacons.ai/terazoa
Teach a man to salad.
December 2, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Teach a man to salad.
Let's spend our time wisely this next year. Develop the metamodern metameme in yourself. Then when 2026 rolls around we will be that much better prepared for embarking upon successful political campaigns that can effectively message across all the metamemes.
November 30, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Let's spend our time wisely this next year. Develop the metamodern metameme in yourself. Then when 2026 rolls around we will be that much better prepared for embarking upon successful political campaigns that can effectively message across all the metamemes.
Misunderstandings of the metameme kind tend to show up as strong moral statements. “I can’t believe how moronic and evil these people are, I just don’t get it!” How many times are we going to say these things about each other before we decide to get a metatheory that allows us to actually “get it”.
November 30, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Misunderstandings of the metameme kind tend to show up as strong moral statements. “I can’t believe how moronic and evil these people are, I just don’t get it!” How many times are we going to say these things about each other before we decide to get a metatheory that allows us to actually “get it”.
And the very fact that it is so bewildering proves the incapacity of the modern and postmodern metamemes to competently make sense of the phenomenon. The development of a theory of mind that can operate multiple metamemes is essential to fruitfully participating in cross-metameme discourse.
November 30, 2024 at 9:32 AM
And the very fact that it is so bewildering proves the incapacity of the modern and postmodern metamemes to competently make sense of the phenomenon. The development of a theory of mind that can operate multiple metamemes is essential to fruitfully participating in cross-metameme discourse.
So slap your uncle with his own hand this thanksgiving and remember to have fun doing it it. Enough grieving a future we were never entitled to. We ARE going back. So have fun with it. It's morning again in America, its 1985 again, so put in that Van Halen tape because we're Runnin' With the Devil.
November 28, 2024 at 12:23 AM
So slap your uncle with his own hand this thanksgiving and remember to have fun doing it it. Enough grieving a future we were never entitled to. We ARE going back. So have fun with it. It's morning again in America, its 1985 again, so put in that Van Halen tape because we're Runnin' With the Devil.
When we speak truth to power, we have to speak in a language it can understand. As much as some of us hope that our wizardly incantations of postmodern deconstructions and critical theory have magical powers they can't slay this dragon. We have to slay it by it's own magic, by it's own tongue.
November 28, 2024 at 12:13 AM
When we speak truth to power, we have to speak in a language it can understand. As much as some of us hope that our wizardly incantations of postmodern deconstructions and critical theory have magical powers they can't slay this dragon. We have to slay it by it's own magic, by it's own tongue.
On Jan 20th early modernity robber-barons will gain power in America riding a beastly incarnation of postfaustianism in the form of white christo-nationalism.
November 28, 2024 at 12:11 AM
On Jan 20th early modernity robber-barons will gain power in America riding a beastly incarnation of postfaustianism in the form of white christo-nationalism.
They sleep soundly at night and leave the responsibility for the actual well being of the world weighing heavily upon us. They sleep in blissful ignorance while we sweat, toss, and turn for not just ourselves but for their sake as well. It's a thankless task, but if this is you, thank you!
November 27, 2024 at 11:11 PM
They sleep soundly at night and leave the responsibility for the actual well being of the world weighing heavily upon us. They sleep in blissful ignorance while we sweat, toss, and turn for not just ourselves but for their sake as well. It's a thankless task, but if this is you, thank you!
Our lives are good, so how can they justify endangering me and exposing me to whatever humiliations this coming administration can impose? How compartmentalized is their relationship to me in their minds? Do we not all feel something like this? This risk they're taking, that we all have to suffer.
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Our lives are good, so how can they justify endangering me and exposing me to whatever humiliations this coming administration can impose? How compartmentalized is their relationship to me in their minds? Do we not all feel something like this? This risk they're taking, that we all have to suffer.
When I transitioned and made my reappearance to my family on Christmas Eve of 2011 they all called me by my name, wrote it on my gifts, and we all moved on as if things had always been that way. That's how we did it and I appreciated that. I am Krista and so I've always been Krista.
November 27, 2024 at 10:55 PM
When I transitioned and made my reappearance to my family on Christmas Eve of 2011 they all called me by my name, wrote it on my gifts, and we all moved on as if things had always been that way. That's how we did it and I appreciated that. I am Krista and so I've always been Krista.
Look what they have me doing. I'm quoting scripture, literally for Christ's sake.
I can't help but wonder what grievance of theirs, my cousin, my uncle, and others, what has gone so terribly wrong in liberal America that has convinced them to surrender their integrity to this awful ideology.
I can't help but wonder what grievance of theirs, my cousin, my uncle, and others, what has gone so terribly wrong in liberal America that has convinced them to surrender their integrity to this awful ideology.
November 27, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Look what they have me doing. I'm quoting scripture, literally for Christ's sake.
I can't help but wonder what grievance of theirs, my cousin, my uncle, and others, what has gone so terribly wrong in liberal America that has convinced them to surrender their integrity to this awful ideology.
I can't help but wonder what grievance of theirs, my cousin, my uncle, and others, what has gone so terribly wrong in liberal America that has convinced them to surrender their integrity to this awful ideology.
What's more fundamental to Christianity than feeding the hungry, sheltering the poor, healing and caring for the sick and elderly. But God forbid that we have school lunches, homeless shelters, universal healthcare, etc. ‘as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’
November 27, 2024 at 10:41 PM
What's more fundamental to Christianity than feeding the hungry, sheltering the poor, healing and caring for the sick and elderly. But God forbid that we have school lunches, homeless shelters, universal healthcare, etc. ‘as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’
We are doing what Jesus would do! You can't seriously claim the moral high ground in all it's holy, patriotic, and self-righteous glory, and simultaneously demonize and undermine the people working to bring to bear the very virtues you espouse.
November 27, 2024 at 10:34 PM
We are doing what Jesus would do! You can't seriously claim the moral high ground in all it's holy, patriotic, and self-righteous glory, and simultaneously demonize and undermine the people working to bring to bear the very virtues you espouse.
Modernism globally developed directly out of the postfaustianism claim of one universal truth. It makes manifest and explicit it's values in the form of systems of law and order, reason, logic, mathematics, science, ethics, justice, and makes charity noncapricious with the welfare state.
November 27, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Modernism globally developed directly out of the postfaustianism claim of one universal truth. It makes manifest and explicit it's values in the form of systems of law and order, reason, logic, mathematics, science, ethics, justice, and makes charity noncapricious with the welfare state.
How is anything Trump does Christian? I'm sorry uncle Rick, but the fraudulent, adulterer, sexual abuser, family separator is not God's chosen vessel to save America. The problem isn't that you're too Christian, it's that you're not nearly Christian enough. Just be coherent! What would Jesus do!?
November 27, 2024 at 10:24 PM
How is anything Trump does Christian? I'm sorry uncle Rick, but the fraudulent, adulterer, sexual abuser, family separator is not God's chosen vessel to save America. The problem isn't that you're too Christian, it's that you're not nearly Christian enough. Just be coherent! What would Jesus do!?
They have respectable virtues. Sure, they love to bitch and feel superior but who doesn't. These are good people with legitimate moral code that is, relative to the grand scale of history, pretty impressive, for a great ape. Use it against them. "Why are you hitting yourself? Say uncle, uncle Rick!"
November 27, 2024 at 10:13 PM
They have respectable virtues. Sure, they love to bitch and feel superior but who doesn't. These are good people with legitimate moral code that is, relative to the grand scale of history, pretty impressive, for a great ape. Use it against them. "Why are you hitting yourself? Say uncle, uncle Rick!"
So this holiday season, if we the secular liberals engage in debate, let us be careful not to be cruel in taking this comfort from them. Redirect it lovingly. Do jiu-jitsu on your family, even grandma, give them a solid ass kicking, but throw them onto the couch instead of the cold hard floor.
November 27, 2024 at 10:07 PM
So this holiday season, if we the secular liberals engage in debate, let us be careful not to be cruel in taking this comfort from them. Redirect it lovingly. Do jiu-jitsu on your family, even grandma, give them a solid ass kicking, but throw them onto the couch instead of the cold hard floor.
They exist in an interconnected association between their faith, family, safety, history, and with freedom itself. They've spent their lives associating that with conservatism and team red. They have been reassured by Trump apologists 24/7 for 8 years that everything is on track. "Have faith."
November 27, 2024 at 10:04 PM
They exist in an interconnected association between their faith, family, safety, history, and with freedom itself. They've spent their lives associating that with conservatism and team red. They have been reassured by Trump apologists 24/7 for 8 years that everything is on track. "Have faith."
As a metamodernist I understand that for postfaustian religious people, there is always a faith that God is keeping things on the rails for them, the chosen people. They associate that faith with America, conservatism, and yes, even with Trump. "Don't worry about Trump, it's all part of God's plan."
November 27, 2024 at 9:53 PM
As a metamodernist I understand that for postfaustian religious people, there is always a faith that God is keeping things on the rails for them, the chosen people. They associate that faith with America, conservatism, and yes, even with Trump. "Don't worry about Trump, it's all part of God's plan."
I imagine her as I'm struggling to sleep due to anxiety. I picture her sleeping well, perhaps comforted by the image of a smiling Trump as she drifts easily to sleep assured that the good guys are in charge again and it's all going to be okay. All is right again in America. Her dream, my nightmare.
November 27, 2024 at 9:46 PM
I imagine her as I'm struggling to sleep due to anxiety. I picture her sleeping well, perhaps comforted by the image of a smiling Trump as she drifts easily to sleep assured that the good guys are in charge again and it's all going to be okay. All is right again in America. Her dream, my nightmare.
I have this conservative cousin. She is 10 years my senior, beautiful, a mother, successful, and she believes Trump is going to save America. She is that person for me, I think we all have one, that is the representative for this kind of person. When I have a debate in my mind I think of her.
November 27, 2024 at 9:42 PM
I have this conservative cousin. She is 10 years my senior, beautiful, a mother, successful, and she believes Trump is going to save America. She is that person for me, I think we all have one, that is the representative for this kind of person. When I have a debate in my mind I think of her.