I feel an authoritarian urge to stamp out authoritarianism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That urge to rebel against authoritarianism is instinct to be free from control, not in of itself to be authoritarian!
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Replying to @RicGarrison
I'm not having an urge to rebel. I'm having an urge to stamp out far-left PC police & far-right bigotry. It will pass.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Then your urge is to stamp out ignorance, fixed thinking and tribal mentality.
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Replying to @RicGarrison
They can do that as long as they don't try to impose it. (NB. I'm not being serious.)
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Replying to @HPluckrose
People will always try to impose what they consider to be the 'good' on others. That's why we need informed voices of reason!
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Replying to @RicGarrison
Yes. I argue for this a lot but at the moment I am *joking.*
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Really? I think that urge is normal part of our instinctive reaction, fight or flight. We can use our rational sense to overcome
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Replying to @RicGarrison
Yes, I am really joking. I'd be interested in a serious conversation abt tribalism & authoritarianism & the extent to which ...
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Replying to @HPluckrose @RicGarrison
...this can be overcome by reason (I'm with Jon Haidt on limits of this) another time. Today, I must resist lengthy convos.
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Alternatively, you cld search my tag with 'tribalism' and 'authoritarianism' and see lengthy convos I've already had.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Will do, it is also heavily tied in with Identity, hence a reason the rise of identity politics is seeing a rise is 'racism'
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