The institutional superstructure isn't going anywhere, at least if you're talking about academia. Media bluecheckery, well, very possibly.
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Thinking more about stuff like the venerable lefty-identitarian group MEChA being eaten up for being transphobic and non-inclusive. MEChA's ideology is repugnant but coherent; the new wave is barking mad.
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"Students at a national conference for the group said Chicanx, the gender-neutral term used by young activists, symbolized an era when Mexican American civil rights groups excluded gays, lesbians and transgender people..." ...-x isn't woke anymore?
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Purity spiray accelerating exponentially; each generation is half as long as the previous.
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What I find most curious is how they think anybody who didn't go to the right college could possibly keep abreast of the various changes.
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They have no history, no sense, and they believe they have the divine right to rule.
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On one hand, anything reducing the cathedral's culture-forming power is good. On the other hand, we need to keep in mind that the 70s cults were much more desperate and likely to do stupid things than 60s radicals.
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@hradzka has been predicting a comeback for domestic bombers. But I'm also thinking of stuff like $cientology, where you have a group of people way way WAY down a rabbithole of psychological reprogramming and deliberately broken language.
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My alternative quarter-baked thought is that the structure has fairly suddenly become a lot more democratic. The Cathedral is not vastly different, but the damping and rationalising that politics used to do has been shattered.
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The Cathedral always had crazies and fringes, but the destruction of hierarchy within progressive movement has meant there is noone now to say what is fringe progressivism and what is mainstream progressivism
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Fingers crossed!
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I like it. The bitter enders become the leaders and lieutenants of the Next Thing, e.g. Saddam's shock troopers becoming ISIS whackadoos.
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That's really satisfyingly apt
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The anti-fragile part of the Cathedral is that it allows intellectual collapse and fragmentation when everyone works on coming up with new ideas to drive it forward The death of the USSR was cause for re-thinking a lot of previous doctrines
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