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Venkatesh Rao ☀️

Society is now locked in an existential struggle with itself to decide what archetype will replace “consumer” the way “consumer” replaced “citizen” in the 1950s

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No, it ain’t “creator” or “builder” or any such high-energy positive archetype. It will be a low-energy least-resistance archetype of unrepentant mediocrity. “Airdrop-farming degen” is a crypto-local version of whatever the general version will be.

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‘Passenger’

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I think the replacement is “user”…eg “I’m an android user vs iOS user”…basically a continuation of the “consumer” thread as far as identity goes. Although if we’re looking at archetype from a psychic viewpoint (in a Jungian archetype sense) it’s a continuation of archetypal identity

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Uberpartisan, pun included.

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“Member” seems like the emerging label catch all in online communities. Followers seems too much like “population” — not active enough. Consumer and Citizen are both low-activity default yet active roles, so Member or Participant seems to fit. Contributor, Creator, Builder are all high energy

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1) perhaps consumer has a bit more to run before a real transition like the 50s. 2) when it does transition perhaps ‘viewer/user’

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