Well, even if I did think the right's lack of cultural power was a problem, I'm not sure it's amenable to policy solution. I mean, maybe they should try winning more converts to their churches, writing novels, making movies etc. But I don't see a political solution to this.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @mckaycoppins
High openness people are the biggest cultural producers and those people are temperamentally liberal.
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Replying to @willwilkinson @mckaycoppins
Where would Ezra Pound, Yeats & T.S. Eliot fit into this?
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Replying to @HeerJeet @mckaycoppins
On the right tail of the distribution.
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Replying to @willwilkinson @mckaycoppins
Okay, moving beyond specific examples, I would say that before the 20th century, maybe even before 1945, almost all culture (esp. high culture) was what we would see as conservative: tradition-affirming, hierarchical & aristocratic in orientation.
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It’s arguable that great artists had the temperant Will describes but the major institutions that supported them (churches, universities, aristocratic patrons) were much more conservative in the past.
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It’s also arguable that certain early 21st century psychological categories are arbitrary and culturally contingent and a bit BS.
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I think culturally contingent more than arbitrary or BS. I accept that they describe our society but I have a hard time seeing how they apply to very different social orders.
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Increasing equality and rising standards of living make politics more expressive, which means political alignments break more along temperamental lines.
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