Politics is so fundamentally vapid & devoid of internal feedback mechanisms it's beyond hope, at least until the next revolution.
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Disclaimer: my own political views are prominently left-wing, but on certain points I despise leftist totalitarianism & willful ignorance.
Boo-fucking-hoo.
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I still can't get my head around the idea that the principle description of most political positions is its position on a single axis from Left to Right. If there were maybe ten axes we might have something a bit more revealing.
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You expect primates to come up with sophisticated classification systems totally at odds with the instincts they culturally can't admit to having?
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Lol! Of course I wouldn't *expect* it, but it would be great to hear conversations that went based around what sort of Left people are defending themselves from being accused of being.
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I've long since lost hope for that. We have those sorts of discussions in Norway. I have never, ever, seen them carried out abroad.
And the political climate in Norway is also deteriorating.
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Really? That's a shame. It seems to be one of those places seen as a beacon of hope for people who know literally nothing about the political situation there.
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Yeah, well, it's still probably a better and safer place to live than almost any other place on the planet for the not-disgustingly-rich, assuming you don't mind the cold and you don't live in Oslo.
That's not the same as saying it's anywhere close to utopia.
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In spite of everything, I think Britain isn't a terrible place from that point of view, either, for all but a (growing) minority… it could be pretty lovely for everyone, but a lot of people don't want it to be (and I don't just mean that they're not willing to pay the price).
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I speculate that the sheer spitefulness of Anglo culture is an atavism from your imperial days. Confer American attitudes towards the wider world and the resemblance is uncanny.
Living under a system which crushes and abuses the Other for profit does something to the collective mores. I'm almost 100% sure of that.
It makes people very unseemly, at the individual level.
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I see the same creeping narcissism and apathy in the younger generations in Norway.
It's real moral decay. It's a delicious irony that the conservatives take ownership of the term, when they are its worst purveyors.
Well, it makes perfect sense actually, but y'know what I mean.
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