Most of our beliefs and behavior are not generated in this way. Beliefs evolve just like DNA, very slowly, over generations, and with many dead ends. There is no ultimate goal, only fitness, only ever fitness, and fitness is local and idiosyncratic to its environment
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Beliefs accumulate in societies like useful mutations accumulate in organisms, and very old beliefs are more likely to be useful than very new ones. Innovation is not the destruction of old categories, but the classification of new perceptions
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Besides trying to confuse existing categories, another trick that propagandists use is to invent farcical new ones that contain the whole world, and then present their agenda as an exciting new alternative to a previously invisible default
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This is a bit like pointing out the existence of water to the fish, and suggesting that they try breathing air instead. All your life you have been oppressed by waterism, and you didn’t even realize it! I call this kind of attack a categorical rebase (plz invent a better name!)
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The most successful categorical rebase in history may be convincing people that there is something called capitalism, and something called communism, and that all your unhappiness is caused by being trapped inside capitalism
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(Aside: libertarianism is another famous, but far less successful categorical rebase)https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1061983839940046848 …
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ZERO HP Lovecraft 🐬 @0x49fa98I hate the standard political compass, which I am pretty sure was popularized by libertarians trying to peel converts away from left and right using a childish and poorly conceived axis called “authority-liberty”. I made up this metric, see, and it shows you’re all on my side pic.twitter.com/PE9CpvKUzpShow this thread3 replies 2 retweets 55 likesShow this thread -
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Red pill: capitalism is not a thing, humans make markets like honeybees make hives, and communism is not an alternative to it, it’s the equivalent of trying to convince honeybees not to build hives.https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1036625619142959106 …
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I’m not really convinced that “deterritorialized flows of money” is substantially different from market economies. Seems to me to be merely a difference of degree
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It's not a difference at all - it's a rhetorical trick to make "capitalism" seem new and alien rather than just the consequence of property rights and contract enforcement which are features of every functioning settled human civilization going back to ancient Sumerpic.twitter.com/LjlgzCD1Kk
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