The right doing civic politics while the left did race war clearly wasn't a Nash equilibrium.
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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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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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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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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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... 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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Replying to @Outsideness @ValueCritic
I assume you mean by intelligence pattern recognition, problem-solving ability... which is the continual iterative improvement of approximative models of reality, not specifically in the absolute, but in the moment to moment expression of it in relation to the organism...
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The discovery process is step-wise. You observe, you corroborate with your other senses, then known facts, etc. but the first step is direct perception.
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