The SJW mind virus is really scary because it's spreading - and it's spreading because it's evolved to a point where it's become immune the standard antibiotic arguments. Its success is due to its adaption to pressures - empathy and reason - that killed what preceded it.
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The SJW mentality has a lot in common with religious doctrine. Both have evolved in a way that spread quickly and dug in deep roots. I think I'm gonna write an article about the aspects of both these frameworks that make them self-propagating and difficult to dislodge.
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Maybe the super resiliency is illusory. Maybe it’s just a quirky phenomenon driven by the emergence of the internet unusual affinity for spreading via social media.
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I would argue that people with intransigent and extreme views can have any sociopolitical stance...
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SJW grows unstoppably because it pushes for increasing moral entropy.
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From my perspective what has happened is that it has been evolving since the 90s in a closed environment and developed incredible antibodies, before it suddenly was unleashed on an unsuspecting populace
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We have to quickly develop arguments that can defeat it, perhaps mashalling unusual motivations to do so. I have seen "seeing people as individuals" vs "identity politics" as a strain that still retain some effectiveness for some reason
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There were a couple of key innovations I think, in cognitive areas that usually aren't hit with innovations. Most novel is that it is aimed at very low-level part of the brain OS. What is good. What are people. What is talking. It's religious-level philosophy.
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Some accidents helped: it was language-based, just as the internet was emerging. It fit well with a cultural zeitgeist that we can create our own worlds. It was expensive, but came at a time with high surplus in the idea-space "the dream time".
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