Can be a matter of what you know & what interests you. Sustained criticism of a problem in depth requires finding it interesting as well as troubling. For me, religion & postmodernism's complicated weirdness is fascinating. The populist right's is mundane, shallow, dull, obvioushttps://twitter.com/christianjbdev/status/979748747663020032 …
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I like complicated ideology/psychology. Something to get teeth into. Most people don't like reading abt postmodernism & critical theory underlying SocJus so I can be useful by making it accessible with an aim to fixing it & defeating populist right by making left electable.
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If I were to pick the biggest problem and most important to raise awareness of, it would probably be climate change. If I were a more altruistic & noble person, I would set aside the study of ideology that inspires me & learn the science which makes me fall asleep. I am not.
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Also, I strongly suspect I'd just lose all my readers because meteorology simply isn't nearly as interesting as culture, ethics, psychology, politics, Humans are overwhelmingly more interested in how people think.
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How the populist right think is not very interesting at all and if Trump thinks, it's not evident. I can't get enthusiastic about going on & on about xenophobia, racism, sexism, homophobia are bad and why it's better not to let ppl die for lack of healthcare and welfare support.
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Most people know this & yet many strengthen the element of the right that doesn't because they fear the left is worse. I think they're wrong but I also think this is better addressed by fixing the problems on the left and winning ppl back than going on * on abt populism being bad
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I think the problem undermining the left right now and leaving the door open to the worst of the right is ultimately one of good aims pursued using a terrible epistemology & that nothing can much improve until that is recognised and remedied.
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