What I find most interesting about political ideologies is that, like religions, they all are obviously wrong, yet compel pseudo-belief.
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Nerdy political ideologies are more obviously wrong only because they are simple and clear, I suspect.
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Unlike believing you had eggs for breakfast, political "belief" requires frequent application of anti-thought ploys: http://meaningness.com/eternalist-ploys …
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The idea that you should (must) have political "beliefs" presumably derives from the Protestant insistence that religion is just beliefs.
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@Meaningness There's an extra helping of strange-loop in libertarianism that I think contributes to its bad rep.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness To the extent that it's a rejection of politics, people who act politically from its frame are intrinsically doing it wrong.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness I like to pretend that there's a larger, hidden body of 'libertarians' who actually walk the walk & say nothing. Probably wrong2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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