Interesting thoughts on how they'll shift the narrative to "noble sacrifice". I hadn't considered that but it does make a whole lot of sense.
As for preference for pure bloods in the dating market, I have an anecdotal case in support of this - except in the opposite direction (Female preference rather than male preference).
I work out at an outdoor gym here in Melbourne and I got talking with a woman doing a workout. She became far more interested in me when she found out my "status" (unvaccinated) and went on to tell me all about how hard dating is now, as she doesn't "want a vaccinated man's sperm inside of her" (her words).
Very interesting account! I hadn't thought about how much nowadays the quest for "purity" of all kinds is driven by women (it used to be that men cared much more about "purity" of partners).
My general assumption is that the narrative will have to be established to be flipped. In other words, the very idea that you would pick your mate based on vaccine status is so new and ugly sounding that it will have to be legitimized by the left using their cultural power, before it can be flipped. In practice, this means the app stores might allow OK Cupid to add a "limit your search to only the vaccinated" option. We probably won't see an officially approved search filter *for* the unvaccinated until the Handmaid Finder app drops. Give it 5-10 years :)
Tinder is the most popular dating app, with Bumble coming in second, last time I checked. I popped on to check both of them. Tinder is very pro vaccine - offering you the ability to add a "sticker" to your profile. The four options are "Vaxing Soon", "Vaccines Save Lives", "Immunity Together", and "Vaccinated. Unsure if these stickers are used for algorithm filtering/matching or just virtue signalling.
Bumble has a set of "Covid Preferences" which is the result of five question prompts. The nature of the questions are "are you happy to meet in real life", "would you prefer to meet with a mask, without a mask, or either" and so on. The questions are framed in a pro vaccine way, but not to the same degree Tinder has positioned themselves with the overt support through their sticker options. I expect the prompts are being used in their algorithm for filtering/matching.
I've noticed you are good at predicting how the narrative can be expected to develop. I notice bullshit narratives easily, but I don't have the skill of understanding how they will twist/transform the narrative next. Is this something you've just picked up over time through observing the patterns, or has someone written a book on this that would be useful to develop this skill?
Great question! To a large degree that skill is tied up in the work I've been doing for the last two decades. Generally speaking, I arbitrage the difference between official information and on-the-ground reality. So I have to be good at understanding the "tells" that narratives are being created for various purposes. To give a concrete example, the biggest tell that Theranos was a sham was how aggressive the marketing was for Holmes' image, and how breathless the magazine covers for her were. Same with Gov Cuomo's image vs his nursing home crimes. When people can run on their record, they run on their record, not their "aura". I could give a dozen other examples, each one slightly different. Maybe at some point I'll do a premium post about some of these, or about how I've used my tolerance for risk and stress as a substitute for hard work to drive forward my financial position.
Interesting thoughts on how they'll shift the narrative to "noble sacrifice". I hadn't considered that but it does make a whole lot of sense.
As for preference for pure bloods in the dating market, I have an anecdotal case in support of this - except in the opposite direction (Female preference rather than male preference).
I work out at an outdoor gym here in Melbourne and I got talking with a woman doing a workout. She became far more interested in me when she found out my "status" (unvaccinated) and went on to tell me all about how hard dating is now, as she doesn't "want a vaccinated man's sperm inside of her" (her words).
Very interesting account! I hadn't thought about how much nowadays the quest for "purity" of all kinds is driven by women (it used to be that men cared much more about "purity" of partners).
My general assumption is that the narrative will have to be established to be flipped. In other words, the very idea that you would pick your mate based on vaccine status is so new and ugly sounding that it will have to be legitimized by the left using their cultural power, before it can be flipped. In practice, this means the app stores might allow OK Cupid to add a "limit your search to only the vaccinated" option. We probably won't see an officially approved search filter *for* the unvaccinated until the Handmaid Finder app drops. Give it 5-10 years :)
Tinder is the most popular dating app, with Bumble coming in second, last time I checked. I popped on to check both of them. Tinder is very pro vaccine - offering you the ability to add a "sticker" to your profile. The four options are "Vaxing Soon", "Vaccines Save Lives", "Immunity Together", and "Vaccinated. Unsure if these stickers are used for algorithm filtering/matching or just virtue signalling.
Bumble has a set of "Covid Preferences" which is the result of five question prompts. The nature of the questions are "are you happy to meet in real life", "would you prefer to meet with a mask, without a mask, or either" and so on. The questions are framed in a pro vaccine way, but not to the same degree Tinder has positioned themselves with the overt support through their sticker options. I expect the prompts are being used in their algorithm for filtering/matching.
I've noticed you are good at predicting how the narrative can be expected to develop. I notice bullshit narratives easily, but I don't have the skill of understanding how they will twist/transform the narrative next. Is this something you've just picked up over time through observing the patterns, or has someone written a book on this that would be useful to develop this skill?
Great question! To a large degree that skill is tied up in the work I've been doing for the last two decades. Generally speaking, I arbitrage the difference between official information and on-the-ground reality. So I have to be good at understanding the "tells" that narratives are being created for various purposes. To give a concrete example, the biggest tell that Theranos was a sham was how aggressive the marketing was for Holmes' image, and how breathless the magazine covers for her were. Same with Gov Cuomo's image vs his nursing home crimes. When people can run on their record, they run on their record, not their "aura". I could give a dozen other examples, each one slightly different. Maybe at some point I'll do a premium post about some of these, or about how I've used my tolerance for risk and stress as a substitute for hard work to drive forward my financial position.