.. Utterly convincing: Progressivism is propelled by the status/reward feedback system, by petitioning insecure power..
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.. But: the prog memeplex does not exactly follow from status feedback within insecure power. Another meme Could have been subbed initially.
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.. Spandrell nails a good chunk of why prog'ism continues to propagate once instantiated: its a way to safely defecthttps://bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/leftism-is-just-an-easy-excuse/ …
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.. but however socially useful, a worldview so opposed to reality couldn't propagate if it didnt also resonate with a deep part of our psych
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.. That's where the Khaneman cognitive psych concept of Attribute Substitution plugs in quite nearly. ..pic.twitter.com/VYz51AnusP
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.. The mind transforms knotty analytic (Sys 2) target problems by answering different, orthogonal questions in the intuitive (Sys 1) mode..
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..The winning political formula then is one that most Effortlessly maps an over-arching belief system back to the most object-level issues..
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.. How do you keep your memetic signaling post simple, fast, comprehensive? Simplify the world, basically. ..
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.. Avg distance b/t any 2 random points on flat manifold (get it, levelled?) is less than on that of a sphere..https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/36708/manifold-with-minimum-surface-distance-between-two-points …
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.. Anyway, I think this search-space advantage in Attribute Substitution is a big part of why Progressivism got a decisive foothold.
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