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    Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jun 2020

    The way to defeat any ideology, no matter how powerful and inspiring, is to give it a piece of land to rule over.

    3:24 PM - 13 Jun 2020
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    • Toronto (Housing) Neoliberal 🌐🥑🍁 David Hartwell ../* Winning Emergence ves blurry Aurelius J. 🐖☀️
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      2. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 14 Jun 2020

        The good ideologies will run a place well, until they mellow out and become systems, which people are generally comfortable with but not passionate about... The bad ideologies will make life a living hell, and flame out, either through internal collapse or external defeat...

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      3. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 14 Jun 2020

        Focusing an ideology on the minutiae of running a territory forces ideologue leaders to give way to administrators (see Eric Hoffer). Denying an ideology any territory causes it to burn brighter in the hearts of people who are dissatisfied with the current system...

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      4. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 14 Jun 2020

        Ideologies are emergent phenomena that naturally arise in human societies. They begin as tumors in the current system and end as new systems. We human individuals are like cells in their colossal bodies.

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      5. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 14 Jun 2020

        Ideologies are one way that human societies reproduce. And forestalling that reproduction can make the growth and birth of the new society ultimately more catastrophic for the existing ones...

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      1. Gracchi Simp Account  🌐 🧦 🔰‏ @GracchiSimp 13 Jun 2020
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      2. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jun 2020
        Replying to @2theLeft_

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      2. Matthew‏ @Roland00Address 13 Jun 2020
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        *Agreed* That is why ideologies do not limit themselves to their original land, but try to take over neighboring "spaces" like a virus. 😉

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      3. Matias Vanhanen  🇫🇮 🇪🇺 🇺🇳‏ @Vanhasen_Matias 13 Jun 2020
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        Every idea is a virus, and people are very good at catching ideas. The fault is more in humans aping other humans, not so much ideologies themselves.

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      2. vivek james  🦧‏ @vbronjames 13 Jun 2020
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        Imperialism?

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      3. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jun 2020
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        Especially.

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