navigating reality

Reality as we understand it is a phenomenon of social structures, language, and shared processes for engaging with the world. Digital media is remaking all of these in such a way that media consumption more and more resembles the act of playing an alternate reality game.

In this 🧵 we will unpack and over-analyze this absolute masterpiece of a meme, and I'll tell you what I got out of this meme, basically because @AbstractFairy and @danielbrottman dared me to. Deep breath of air. OK lfg 🚀

Ontological pluralism is a commitment to multiple realities, many of which overlap, but some of which remain (at least for now) irreconcilable. It is not a commitment to tolerance of multiple perspectives on a single reality. This latter option, as Bryant points out, would be a rather trivial form of pluralism. It is also a rather colonialist and s... See more