Popper Addressed it more succinctly in his Tolerance Paradox: "... if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant"
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I’d argue the phenomena is more akin to Tainter’s work on diminishing marginal returns to complexity, driving increasingly costly exploration and eventually collapse. He applied the idea to energy technologies, but an analogy to language as tech for generating value seems right.
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In other words, we’ve picked the low hanging fruits within the current sociopolitical paradigm, and now people are directing large amounts of speech energy toward the remaining fringe ideologicial fruit, absent a new S-curve (a new paradigm of sociopolitical organization).
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The pendulum swings. Hopefully the internet will cure the cultural amnesia of our descendants.
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It's funny how that works, isn't it?
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Nope. Trying to silence free speech makes victims of extremists and gives legitimacy to them. The answer to bad speech is more speech always.
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This is just the principal of polar opposites. At the hottest peak of a fever you will shiver with cold. And being frost bitten will feel like burning. That which is at it’s extreme can become its opposite. Move towards the Center if you wish to avoid the pendulum.
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Well, if WWII taught us anything, it's that controlling the speech does nothing. Not sure what the solution is.
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