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“For employees (campaign staff), there is an opportunity for\u00a0live-action roleplaying (LARPing<\/span>)<\/strong> disruption instead of actually taking the existential risks of disrupting. LARPing disruption is fun..Don’t mistake LARPing disruption for the real thing.<\/span>” Venkatesh\u00a0Rao on “Software Adoption Bullshit” via Ribbonfarm newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n

“The High Modernists claimed to be about figuring out the most efficient and high-tech way of doing things, but most of them knew little relevant math or science and were basically just LARPing<\/strong> being rational by placing things in evenly-spaced rectangular grids.” Review of “Seeing Like A State” by Scott Alexander<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I first internalized the meaning of this phrase when I saw it in the Ribbonfarm newsletter<\/a> above.<\/p>\n

LARPing suddenly\u00a0crystallized\u00a0and gave a name to a phenomenon I have witnessed my whole life: people playing<\/em> roles<\/strong> as though they were in a solipsistic theater, rather than living<\/em> their\u00a0roles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

LARPing is common amongst the wealthy, where dilettantism\u00a0is endemic. I know of entire companies that exist merely to provide a realistic LARPing set for someone to play\u00a0CEO \/ Founder, with sometimes hundreds of employees\u00a0cast as actors in their personal drama.<\/p>\n

It reminds me of the old vituperative “poseur<\/a>“, but LARPing is more collaborative. You need a cast to play along. It is group or collective\u00a0posing.<\/p>\n

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“For employees (campaign staff), there is an opportunity for\u00a0live-action roleplaying (LARPing) disruption instead of actually taking the existential risks of disrupting. LARPing disruption is fun..Don’t mistake LARPing disruption for the real thing.” Venkatesh\u00a0Rao on “Software Adoption Bullshit” via Ribbonfarm newsletter “The High Modernists claimed to be about figuring out the most efficient and high-tech way … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130,34,139,7,11,14,15,25],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-26897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-psychology","category-contemporary-culture","category-critical-thinking","category-language-writing","category-miscellaneous","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-words","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/srY0k-larping","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17539,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/trend-is-not-destiny\/","url_meta":{"origin":26897,"position":0},"title":"Trend is Not Destiny","author":"Limbic","date":"March 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Stop and just go read the superb Farnam Street Blog on \"The Central Mistake of Historicism: Karl Popper on Why Trend is Not Destiny\".","rel":"","context":"In "Anthropology"","block_context":{"text":"Anthropology","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/category\/science\/anthropology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The-trend-is-not-destiny-1-300x292","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/The-trend-is-not-destiny-1-300x292.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16934,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/how-to-compose-a-successful-critical-commentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":26897,"position":1},"title":"How to compose a successful critical commentary","author":"Limbic","date":"December 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cIn disputes upon moral or scientific points, let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. 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