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Mary Jane Eyre's avatar

Interesting collection of links! I think vibes is a useful description of that which is difficult to be put into words but still significant, like reading someone's body language, or having a hunch. I wouldn't make too much of predictions based solely on feeling the vibes (synchronicities abound in the age of the algorithm). But, then again, we also can't predict the weather very well, so being wrong about a vibe shift doesn't invalidate the existence of shifting vibes. It's also more fun to talk about vibes than about intractable social and political problems: the vibes will continue shifting so that nothing has to change.

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The Radical Individualist's avatar

'Vibes' make me nervous. There seems to be a presumption that there is only one acceptable vibe at a time, and that we must all adhere to them.

Let's all remember the phase, 'marching to the beat of a different drummer'. That sounds much more appealing to me than 'marching in lockstep'.

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