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{{a|devil|{{image|delamination|png|The moment of [[BlackStar]]. {{vsr|2017}}}}}} | {{a|devil|{{image|delamination|png|The moment of [[BlackStar]]. {{vsr|2017}}}}}}The [[JC]] is cultivating a theory that, at a point in the last decade, the ''online'' universe — the one you’re in now, dear reader, as you peer through crusted specs through this frame into our fully tractable simulacrum — and the ''real'' universe, out there, with trees and flowers and basil fotherington-tomas<ref>‘I simply don’t care a row of buttons whether it was a goal or not nature alone is beattful’</ref> (note to file: we will need a snappy word for each) diverged — “[[Great delamination|delaminated]]” — set off along their own independent, meandering trajectories ever since, finally lost contact and now bear absolutely no relation to each other. | ||
Meaning that what ''was'' a simulacrum increasingly no longer ''is''. There is danger in confusing the two. | Meaning that what ''was'' a simulacrum increasingly no longer ''is''. There is much danger in confusing the two. | ||
Elemental manifestations: ''online'' discourse and discourse ''in real life'' are qualitatively different | Elemental manifestations: ''online'' discourse and discourse ''in real life'' are qualitatively different: online is deterministic, delineated, scaled, binary, digital, definitive, eliminative, final and binding. IRL is graduated, ambiguous, deprecated, provisional, malleable, nuanced, forgivable. Being ''human'', it offers scope for redemption, reinvention, and reconfiguration. No-one is perfect —neither the judge or the judged —so we must make allowances for error, misunderstanding, misapprehension. Online, ostensible fallibility has fallen away. Judgment is simply a special case of categorisation. We can, do, and to get by, ''must'' categorise. | ||
===[[BlackStar]]=== | |||
{{ | The [[JC]] dates that loss of contact to 2016 — specifically, [[10 January 2016]], or “[[BlackStar]]”. The “[[great delamination]]” at which the digital/analogue separation became irreversible, is a key inflexion point in the social history of the 21st century. The separate realms have become “[[non-overlapping magisteria]]” to use {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}}’s excellent term from {{br|Rocks of Ages}}. It is a category error to apply standards in one to situations arising in the other. | ||
===Disentanglement=== | |||
Because the magisteria are fully “disentangled” — the causal arrow is broken in both directions — it has become impossible for independent observers in one magisterium to understand corresponding rationales imported from the other. | |||
This presents a “cancellation problem” for subjects who still equate their own personal cognitive states between the two worlds. Whereas to an observer, digital person A and analogue person A’ are distinct and unconnected, in person A’s own mind they are, of course, one and the same. | |||
Many of the serial sociopolitical and cultural disasters we are encountering at the moment are the result of people confusing their magisteria. | |||
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*[[Rocks of Ages]] | |||
*[[Non-overlapping magisteria]] | *[[Non-overlapping magisteria]] | ||
*[[Moleworth]] | *[[Moleworth]] | ||
{{ref}} | {{ref}} | ||