I was thinking of what Haidt and Douthat etc have said about liberalism & democracy not doing well in diversity & being rather unnatural.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I must have read that. Wasn't necessarily thinking of this, but yes. Diversity isn't really natural. Tribalism is part of our nature.
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Replying to @TamaraBrouwer1 @HPluckrose
Indeed. It takes education to overcome it. I'm beginning to acknowledge the limits of how much we can overcome.
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Much as I'd like tribalism to disappear completely, it is probably utopian and a workable balance needs to be nurtured instead.
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Replying to @BristolBen @HPluckrose
Yes. This is what I believe as well. I used to be an idealist. That ship has sailed a while ago
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Replying to @TamaraBrouwer1 @HPluckrose
I'm beginning to realise (at a deeper level) that being a "citizen of the world" is not for everyone, at a fundamental level.
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Replying to @BristolBen @TamaraBrouwer1
No, its not. I have some nationalist intuitions although I don't like them. Not quite the same as tribalist tho, I don't think.
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eg, I'm sad that cockney will soon be gone even tho it doesn't matter in any real sense. I like familiar cultural things.
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Cockley is a major part of the British global identity, as the counter to the posh toffs. To lose both would be sad in their own way.
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I think it will be sad.No-one under 40 talks it now so its going. MLE instead but many ppl suspicious that that genuinely is what ur sad abt
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Think it code for 'I want fewer brown & black ppl' which is so far from the point that its hard to even begin explaining why it isn't.
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I know that feeling.
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