Instead, each has pitted themselves against the other on the surface level culture war, while the dirty little open secret (that most people don't know) is that they're both utilizing the same tactics and paradigm.
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Short term political digs, exploiting tragedy for political gain, identity politics, the postmodernist penchant for constructing reality and promoting a bastardized "science," biased activist journalism and "fake news," authoritarianism, ideological bubbles, culture war trenches.
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In fighting each other on the surface level culture war, the two sides are unlikely allies when it comes to accelerating this unfortunate paradigm that they've both clearly adopted.
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As long as an issue or an event can be utilized, even for just a moment, for the purposes of advancing a side in the culture war, it will be claimed by that side as evidence, motivation, and propaganda.
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So far, there's been almost nothing dirty or unsavory enough that neither side will pick it up. In this process, each side has perpetuated and accelerated the actions of the other.
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We're currently trapped in a positive feedback loop where whatever one side does ends up justifying the other's response.
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It's gone on for so long that there doesn't seem to be a way to stop the process internally, which is why I use the term "paradigm" to describe it. We need an outside force to shake things up.
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The only silver lining that I can see is that because the two dominant tribes have been steadily moving further apart, there is a vacuum in the middle that opens up a niche for the formation of a new tribe.
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Replying to @M_Methuselah
Tribes, even centrist ones, are antithetical to sanity. As
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I happen to agree with that. But we need to break out of the current paradigm before we can get there, and I don't think that we can jump straight from our polarized two sided tribalism directly into pluralism.
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Yup, agreed, the way forward will be to reframe the battle from left vs right to ideological tolerance vs intolerance, and then win that battle. (Btw, thanks for the follow!)
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @ortoiseortoise
That's why we may need to first focus on the issue of reframing, which is hopefully what I've been doing.
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