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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 1

    People really need to read more history. It would help prevent complacency about the way things are now being how they will always be. I'm amazed at people who think a constitution would hold up in a society which overwhelmingly rejected it contents.

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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 1

        And societies continually overwhelmingly reject values and systems they once overwhelmingly supported. That is why the society we have today is so different from early modern ones, medieval ones, ancient ones.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 1

        This is the wide scope. We can look closely at how well governments reflect the will of the majority and find they are failing on certain issues but step further back and look at the big picture in line with social & intellectual & cultural changes.

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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 1

        We can point that out the majority of Germans were not in favour of Nazism but it happened anyway. It was still a product of political & intellectual developments which existed in that time & space. It could not have been formulated in that way in any other time & space.

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 1

        The reaction to it was also a product of that time and space and so is the way the word 'Nazi' is now commonly used to describe the epitome of evil. Some people seem to act as tho ruling powers are completely disconnected from wider intellectual and political developments.

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      6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 1

        When in fact, we all progress together with different factions reacting against each other and pushing the Overton window back and forth. We are neither powerless against governments nor can systems we like remain strong if we don't protect their foundations.

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      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 1

        We are currently benefiting from living in secular, liberal democracies (those of us who are) and they took a great amount of intellectual work and moral progress to achieve. Whether they last & continue to progress depends entirely on what we as societies do now.

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      1. John Sargeant‏ @JPSargeant78 May 1
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Reminds me of that Hancock joke: “Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain!?”

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      1.  👻 Spooky Smudge  🎃‏ @IllegibleSmudge May 1
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        While I agree constitutions are powerless in the face of overwhelming public opinion that contradicts them, written constitutions help shape a society's mores and make them more resilient, due to deference to tradition & appeals to authority. It flows both ways.

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      2. Graham Stamp‏ @Graham_Stamp May 1
        Replying to @HPluckrose @Fox_Claire

        History is not that important now. We have the internet, it’s changed everything.

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      3. Raymond McCue  💗⚤ 💜⚣ 💙,  🏳️‍🌈‏ @RayMcCue May 1
        Replying to @Graham_Stamp @HPluckrose @Fox_Claire

        Knowing history allows you to draw pragmatic knowledge of what has(n't) worked in times past and why things are as they are. Without it you're susceptible to dogmatic non-empirical rhetoric: whites as the sole violent conquerors, revolutionary change as an unmitigated good, etc.

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      1. Stefanie Nicholas ☩‏ @StefMNicholas May 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Reading more history is always a great idea, honestly. It's so fascinating. It comprises every other subject.

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      1. Doug Davenport‏ @WildMartin429 May 1
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        So this is been my problem my whole life trying to explain to people that that thing has already been tried and it failed. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it but those who do know history are doomed to watch as other idiots repeat it.

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      1. Stephen Fotos‏ @sjfotos May 2
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Very wise and important observation.

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      1. Gimbal Locke‏ @GimbalLocke May 3
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Isn’t some form of complacency the right response to an informed historical conclusion that nothing important ever really changes?

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      2. Raymond McCue  💗⚤ 💜⚣ 💙,  🏳️‍🌈‏ @RayMcCue May 1
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        Raymond McCue  💗⚤ 💜⚣ 💙,  🏳️‍🌈 Retweeted Dave Rubin

        Mr. Hogg could use some of that history, though his needs are in the realm of why societies all end up having armies and how Hitler couldn't be defeated through non-violent protest.https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/991344604434845696 …

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        Dave RubinVerified account @RubinReport
        I don’t want to attack David personally, who is a kid over his head being manipulated and used by powerful people. That said, the idea in this tweet is brain numbingly stupid. pic.twitter.com/zPf0Dd9dPP
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      3. Mike‏ @citation_needed May 3
        Replying to @RayMcCue @HPluckrose

        I want to lock Hogg in a room with Pinker’s “Better Angels” and not let him out until he’s read it. A pass mark of 80% will be set on the exam.

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      1. Vote by November 6.‏ @elindburg May 1
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        History. Yup.

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