Other political cultures have tried mightily to bubble themselves--that's how you get Christian heavy metal--but it's hard.
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
By comparison, the prog bubble has been nearly effortless. A nice snug warm bath of righteousness, fear, anger, hatred.
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
The news sustains it, your hobby sustains it (remember when Rolling Stone covered music?), you get it piped hot & fresh...
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
And when people from the bubble inject their activism into other people's spaces, they've amazed they get pushback.
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We saw a lot of this in the tabletop RPG space. People trying to police the content of other people's games.
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Replying to @Kalyr @semiotechnic
Yes, this is also how Gamergate kicked off. One day all the game news sites were suddenly about politics.
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The ZQ thing was just the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Any spark would have done the same.
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This kind of thing created a huge epistemic advantage for the nascent alt-right (and the far left, for that matter)...
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The prog/neoliberal/identitarians were constantly bathed in their own ideology. So was everyone else...
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Replying to @St_Rev @semiotechnic
What was telling was the way journalists who tried to get to the bottom of things got ostracised and blacklisted.
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