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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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    1. 🅐🅩🅛‏ @aaronzlewis 8 Sep 2019
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      this is some top notch internet ethnography — a close look at post-left gen z politics on insta, where the overton window is infinite and kids "want gay married couples to protect their marijuana plants with unregistered firearms they bought with Bitcoin" http://joshuacitarella.com/_pdf/Politigram_Post-left_2018_short.pdf …pic.twitter.com/6W8iSGgfNN

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    2. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 8 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @aaronzlewis

      Well that was extremely interesting. Curious to hear what @ctbeiser and/or @sonyasupposedly think about it. They seem like the people I know who’d have the best triangulation on those subcultures.

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    3. Chris Beiser‏ @ctbeiser 8 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @KevinSimler @aaronzlewis @sonyasupposedly

      Most of these ideologies are themselves pretty bad. But I think kids going through the act of living + identifying with them, then ~growing past them, is extremely positive for us societally. The crowd has wisdom, and having it soaked into the minds of tomorrow is heartening.

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    4. Chris Beiser‏ @ctbeiser 8 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @ctbeiser @KevinSimler and

      The top posters in these subcultures are more widely read than some political science professors. They're certainly more open to strange ideas. Given the recent collapse of consensus narratives in politics, more ideation is probably a good thing.

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    5. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 8 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @ctbeiser @aaronzlewis @sonyasupposedly

      I’m mostly blown away at how politically sophisticated* it’s possible for a teenager to be in this era. * might be the wrong word... just trying to capture how far they are from the incredibly bland and basic views I was capable of holding at that age

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    6. William Eden - Coronaposting  🚨‏ @WilliamAEden 8 Sep 2019
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      I’m surprised to hear you weren’t more sophisticated as a teenager? I came of age on the Internet, I was already read in anarchism and Objectivism by 13, an-cap by 15... In retrospect a LOT of it was cringey, but I’m not sure how I could have done better than just trying it on.

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    7. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 9 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @WilliamAEden @KevinSimler and

      I barely talked to people till I went to college. My younger friends who came of age on the Internet were much more well-spoken, sure of themselves, and experienced at debate than I had been at their age. It convinced me that the Internet can be a positive influence.

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    8. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 9 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @s_r_constantin @WilliamAEden

      I have two conflicting intuitions here: (1) That it’s good to expose yourself to all these ideas and try on lots of different identities early; but also (2) That you’re better off _not_ exposing your mind to the mind-killer until it’s more fully developed.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @KevinSimler @s_r_constantin @WilliamAEden

      @primalpoly has an interesting couple pages on this in his _Spent_. Young men exposing themselves to toxic concepts as a costly proof of mental fitness. If you can remain sane reading /pol/, it shows women you are not going to crack mentally under stress.

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        1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Sep 2019
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          It’s costly because not everyone gets through /pol/ intact.

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        1. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 9 Sep 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @KevinSimler and

          I'd kinda forgotten about that passage, but I think it explains a lot about current radical Gen Z politics, 12 years after I wrote it. ☺️

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        1. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 9 Sep 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @KevinSimler and

          Is this any different from early times when teens read Heinlein and Ayn Rand, and before that Nietzsche and Baudelaire? MAYBE /pol/ is a vastly more addictive and toxic drug? But this behavior looks to me pretty standard rebel-without-a-clue teen.

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