As people lose the attention spans for complex worldviews, they rally behind mere fragments of worldviews. Would-be egalitarians confine themselves to identity politics, would-be reactionaries confine themselves to NRx. The culture war is largely a battle over ideological debris.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
NRx can be very involved - for example, Unqualified Reservations is very verbose and boring - however, so much so that nobody has read it.
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Replying to @mmt_lvt
Yes, there's a lot of peripheral theory behind it, just as there is with identity politics. But, as with identity politics, the theory is largely obscurantism that serves only to give the illusion of depth to what is essentially an "us vs them" conspiracy theory.
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