I don't get a lot out of Quillette most of the time, but this is a good framing of the macro-scale situation. As if building an extensive system of what one might call 'institutional moral support' induced a phase change in how people relate to authority. https://quillette.com/2018/11/14/the-free-speech-crisis-on-campus-is-worse-than-people-think/ …
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Replying to @St_Rev
Maybe concedes too much in accepting the movement’s self-framing as moral and political? Whereas its main method, of inventing taboos and purification rituals and ensnaring rulers in them, is more analogous to priestly conversion drives (as you’ve pointed out often yourself).
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Replying to @eigenrobot @St_Rev
In a broad sense, I guess! But it’s maybe more similar to e.g. the Jewish Priestly movement and to Brahmanism (both principally concerned with the relationship between priests and kings) than to modern politics (about The People) or moral ideologies (generally universalistic)?
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
Maybe in this framework call it metapolitical? Ie they want to make real or centralize a priestly politics and morality displacing your conception? No strong feelings about this, just playing with the concept
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That might be a good word for it! Rejection of universalism (via intersectionalism) is the central move. That is indeed pretty meta!
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