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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Dec 2018
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    Do I gather that the left has successfully tabooed the concept of virtue signaling while I wasn’t looking? Presumably because it was effective in puncturing pretensions. It’s not a right/left thing, though…

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      2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Dec 2018
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        Virtue signaling is universal, and the concept is an indispensable tool for understanding what people do and why. Rightists virtue-signal just as much as leftists. Most opposition to abortion was always obviously virtue-signaling, for example, and not genuine moral concern.

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Dec 2018
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        Subcultures such as religious sects and fringe political ideologies have their own virtue-signaling shibboleths and taboos, whose function is status-climbing within the subculture. I wrote about virtue-signaling dynamics in the 1960s-80s here:https://meaningness.com/political-left-right-rotated …

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      4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Dec 2018
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        Here I suggest that practically all talk about ethics and morality is actually virtue signaling—with special reference to religion in general, and Buddhism (my religion) in particular. h/t @primalpoly, whose book I stole much of this from!https://vividness.live/2015/10/05/buddhist-ethics-is-advertising/ …

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      2. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 4 Dec 2018
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        Replying to @Meaningness

        I think the idea of virtue signalling got tabooed extremely quickly, and not entirely unjustly given how it was being used.

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Dec 2018
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        Ah… how was it (mis)used? I’ve been too busy with family-crisis fire-fighting to pay attention to cultural dynamics in the past year…

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      2. Tracy Harms‏ @kaleidic 4 Dec 2018
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        If it was deployed one-sidedly, viciously, and indiscriminately (as I think it was) then the refusal to take it seriously is to be expected.

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      3. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 4 Dec 2018
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        Yeah. It has the problem of being a useful concept that is too easy to weaponise in a way that causes it to degrade to uselessness

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      2. Corn Woman  🌽‏ @WomanCorn 4 Dec 2018
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        I think more like: the right successfully deployed accusations of virtue signaling*, so the left assumes that anyone talking about virtue signaling is a rightie doing tribal war. * Not hard. Roughly everyone is signaling all the time.

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      2. sol‏ @fire__exit 4 Dec 2018
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        i blame both sides for this, it was useful so quickly spread and then got overused

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      3. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 4 Dec 2018
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        Chaos Retweeted Chaos

        these were interesting resultshttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/842932355673313281 …

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        POLL: if I say "Hugo Schwyzer was the king of virtue signalling", do I sound like:
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