I no longer find "centrist" a useful term because it refers to the Left-Right spectrum and so much of the conflict now is more along the Authoritarian-Liberty access which it doesn't traditionally refer to. I think most of these do now tend mildly Right but I think that's because
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Replying to @OldmanOfTheWeb @_HelenDale and
the Left have predominantly become more Authoritarian and the Right is either remaining free or becoming more so. Maybe it always was? You get people like Eric
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Replying to @OldmanOfTheWeb @_HelenDale and
positions anymore there, they keep finding themselves aligning with Rightists. It may be perception bias as I identify as Right wing myself so there's that. But I see it as Identity Politics on the Right is a fringe whilst on the Left it's the mainstream.
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Replying to @OldmanOfTheWeb @_HelenDale and
I do tend to hang out with people who talk about ideas and aren’t fixated on the melanin content of my skin, my Y-Chromosome, or my lucky country of birth. How that became “the Right” is beyond me. I missed the mother of all memos it would seem.
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein @OldmanOfTheWeb and
I’ve been a classical liberal in the British tradition (Hume, Smith, Mill) blended with Burkean conservatism for a long time & the political reconfiguration currently in process is...strange. I’m old enough to recall arguing against conservatives who supported censorship.
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Replying to @_HelenDale @OldmanOfTheWeb and
Do you have a theory? It seems like some reprogramming happened at scale that no one can put his or her finger on.
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein @_HelenDale and
I am also old enough to remember when those on the left were liberal...where did it all go wrong?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @TheAlchemist235 and
Eric, actually yes - if anyone has a developed set of ideas on the question you’re asking it’s Helen Pluckrose. I’ll leave her to link her preferred pieces, but I know she’s thought a lot about this issue.
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Replying to @_HelenDale @HPluckrose and
Cool! Id love to learn. I’ve been working up a few too having to do with emotional intelligence, social and emotional learning, social media + mobile and decreased friction in the return of costs, post Lehman bros household formation issues, etc..
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I've tended to look more at the intellectual changes from universal liberalism in which we dealt with injustice by removing social significance from identity categories to one rooted in cultural constructivism by discourse in which people are positioned by identity.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @EricRWeinstein and
“Trickle down pomo” explains it I think. Pomo became the dominant form of discourse in academia in the late 80s & 90s, spread to the mainstream post recession.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @tjaffry and
That was the piece I had in mind, I must confess.
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