I've got the sense that myself and a lot of my friends hold opinions that would hurt them if exposed to public view, which makes me feel like we're some hidden group of 'no limits' curiosity. But this must not be new - throughout history,
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have there always been groups of people underground secretly reasoning themselves into opinions that the wider world viewed as offensive for the time? This makes me feel kind of elitist, and I'm not used to thinking in such binary value'd terms.
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but like, does this mean there were hidden salons in the 1600s where people were like 'yeah man homosexuals should definitely be able to marry' 'shh be quieter edward they'll hear you'
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I mean a lot of this is stuff I've said on my twitter before, or at least prodded at with series of polls.
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Oh weird, I have almost the opposite intuition. You mean to say there are groups of close friends who don't share opinions that would hurt them if exposed to public view?
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I find this to be an interesting article about this dynamic: scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3376
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