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Masturbatory Egoism
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"Are you smarter than a 3rd grade school student?" .... Masturbatory Egoism of social media simulacra. Reactionary comment messages on social systems that boil down to: "I am smarter than Donald Trump", "I am smarter than Elon Musk", "I am smarter than Russia", "They have no clue", "those people are clueless", "they are so stupid-dumb-idot". Promoting anti-education, anti-learning, and total mockery of NATO / USA. The very low low bars of popular screen game show of people declaring they are smarter than others
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"Interesting how the shallowest Joyce readers are always so aggressively obsessed with his sexuality" - https://old.reddit.com/r/jamesjoyce/comments/1jl24mt/found_in_another_sub/mk0evmb/
Isn't that true for ANY form of art when it comes to shallow consumers? The very people who would avoid the David Foster Wallace notes / James Joyce cross-references in shallow understanding also attracted to the most shallow rumors of HCE (We continue our journalistic investigation into the HCE Affair)? "Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man." - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966 (University of Toronto professor)
"We continue our journalistic investigation into the HCE Affair. The last ten pages of Chapter 3 comprise an episode known as The Battery at the Gate. Following his condemnation in the court of public opinion―as expressed in the Plebiscite―HCE takes refuge within his tavern. But he continues to be abused both verbally and physically."