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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 23 Mar \ parent \ on: Some thoughts on Mike Tyson as meta-organism mostly_harmless
That metaphor works, but I like it less well bc Tyson + his local ecosystem are, collectively, a kind of thing that is fundamentally different than their constituent elements -- it's not just a fish that gets the benefit of less fungus and some hangers on that get a meal, this cluster of people, w/ Tyson at their core, have become emergent as the system-of-Tyson and are, collectively, doing and experiencing things that would be otherwise unattainable to their component elements.
Or so I'm hypothesizing, anyway. I'm mostly talking out of my ass, since I don't actually know anything about the Tyson ecosystem other than pieces of it that existed over the years, e.g., Don King. Still, the effects are familiar.