Why are racial politics so popular right now?https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/959347619037298688 …
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Replying to @ValueCritic
The right doing civic politics while the left did race war clearly wasn't a Nash equilibrium.
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Replying to @ValueCritic
When your opponent is systematically attached to racial grievance-mongering, you either: a) Grievance back (Alt-Right), or b) Neutralize Voice (NRx) ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
An understandable response, but it would leave us in tit-for-tat, "identity" politics, factional tribal warfare maelstrom. No recourse to real justice?
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Replying to @ValueCritic
Fragmentation and independence (by no means exclusively on commonly-understood ethnic grounds) is a far more sensible goal than universal justice. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
Remove the justification for justice and you remove the justification for government. The whole thing becomes only might-makes-right. Muscle over mind.
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Replying to @ValueCritic
International relations are already based on exactly that, under realistic analysis. Independence cannot be grounded in universal consent. ...
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... "Muscle over mind" is a really bad formulation, though. Mind is the only mega-weapon.
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If by "weapon" you mean tool, then yes. Remember, it is not only for attacking and subduing. There is coordination, not only
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The teleological complexity of its means-end inspiraling self-escalation is the key to the thing.
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Replying to @Outsideness @ValueCritic
... Any means OR ends beside intelligence are dumb by definition. Which means, when it comes to a crunch, they're really ineffective and non-compelling.
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