I find it difficult to model the social world in power hierarchies, because I don't have an intrinsic sense for social authority, and the criteria that most people use when characterizing actual social power are quite unconvincing.
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As a result, power tends to be bestowed on you through a process of social acceptance, unless you move society into a defective (totalitarian) mode, which is why he abhors Stalinism so much.
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The current progressives tend to emphasize the perceived arbitrariness of social acceptance, which is why they sometimes may tend to bypass the part where you do all the things that make you an acceptable social agent, and go straight for changing the criteria of acceptance.
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